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INEC lists 19 candidates for Taraba’s 2027 governorship election
Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission has listed 19 candidates for Taraba State’s governorship election on 6 February 2027.
Incumbent Governor Agbu Kefas is running for the All Progressives Congress, while former senator Emmanuel Bwacha is the Peoples Democratic Party candidate.
The two have switched parties since the 2023 election, when Kefas won for the PDP and Bwacha ran for the APC.
Former senator Abubakar Tutare is the African Democratic Congress candidate, and 2023 runner-up Muhammad Yahaya is now running for the Nigeria Democratic Congress.
The candidates represent 19 political parties, and INEC’s final list also names their running mates.
The election will decide who leads a state where infrastructure, agriculture, jobs, education, healthcare, security and public finances are important concerns.
Kefas will be seeking another mandate, while challengers will need to explain how they would address those issues.
The published list gives voters an official reference for the candidates ahead of the election.
INEC has listed 19 candidates for Taraba State’s 6 February 2027 governorship election.
Incumbent Governor Agbu Kefas is the APC candidate, while former senator Emmanuel Bwacha is the PDP candidate.
Former senator Abubakar Tutare is the ADC candidate, and former NNPP candidate Muhammad Yahaya is now listed as the NDC candidate.
Kefas won the 2023 election on the PDP platform before defecting to the APC, while Bwacha has moved from the APC to the PDP.
The election will be contested amid concerns including infrastructure, agriculture, employment, education, healthcare, security and public finance.
- Who
- INEC listed 19 candidates, including incumbent Governor Agbu Kefas for the APC and Emmanuel Bwacha for the PDP.
- What
- The candidates will contest the Taraba governorship election.
- When
- 6 February 2027.
- Where
- Taraba State, Nigeria.
- Why
- The election will determine who leads the state; the sources do not state why INEC published the list.
Agbu Kefas and the APC
Emmanuel Bwacha and the PDP
Administration record
Agbu Kefas and the APC
Kefas is seeking another mandate and will defend his administration’s record since taking office in 2023.
Emmanuel Bwacha and the PDP
Bwacha has criticised the Kefas administration over infrastructure, economic management and transparency.
Election case
Agbu Kefas and the APC
Kefas’s record will be at issue in the campaign.
Emmanuel Bwacha and the PDP
Bwacha and other challengers will seek to present themselves as better alternatives to the administration.
No direct quotes in the coverage so far.
Kefas won the governorship election on the PDP platform, while Bwacha contested as the APC candidate and finished third.
Premium Times reported that INEC had listed 19 candidates for the Taraba governorship election.
Taraba’s governorship election is scheduled to take place.
- Number of candidates
- 19
- Election date
- 6 February 2027
- Kefas’s party
- APC
- Bwacha’s party
- PDP
- Tutare’s party
- ADC
- Kefas’s 2023 vote total
- 257,926
Sources
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