INEC Don Drop List: 18 Candidates, But Guess Who Dey Run Again

INEC don release the full list of presidential candidates for the 2027 election, and the names wey dey inside go make you shake your head. 18 candidates and their running mates from 18 different parties. The election for presidential and National Assembly don move to January 16, 2027, while governorship and state House of Assembly go hold February 6, 2027. Na INEC secretary Rose Oriaran-Anthony sign the list.

But na the age wey catch my eye. Atiku Abubakar of ADC na the oldest at 79 years old. Bola Tinubu of APC follow am at 74. The vice to Donald Duke of PRP, Rabiu Kabiru, na 80 years old. Meanwhile, the youngest pair na Adebisi Moses Olusoji and Abubakar Nafisat Usaku of DLA at 35. And only two women dey run for president: Ada Elizabeth Fredrick Okwori of NDP and Nkem Esther Okereke of NRM.

Make I talk true, this list just show say our politics dey recycle the same faces. Atiku don try this thing since 1993, na about seventh time. Tinubu dey go for second term. Even Sowore of AAC still dey there, the man wey DSS arrest for treason in 2019 and re-arrest inside court less than 12 hours after dem release am. The youth wey DLA put forward, 35 years old, na them suppose be the future, but we all know how this thing dey go.

With Professor Joash Amupitan as the new INEC chairman since October 2025, this na im first general election. The question wey I dey ask be say: if the two youngest candidates no get structure and the oldest dey near 80, who really dey fight for the Nigerian youth wey no get job? Abi na only to vote we dey?