What Nigeria’s 2026 Party Primaries Reveal About Electoral Reform and Party Power
The recent party primaries have offered an early glimpse into the politics that will shape Nigeria’s 2027 general election. Beyond determining who secured party tickets, they have also provided an early test of how the Electoral Act 2026 is working in practice.
What emerged from those contests suggests that changing the rules of candidate selection does not necessarily change how political power is exercised within parties. More fundamentally, the primaries raised a broader question about where power actually resides within Nigeria’s party system.
