ADC: INEC Must Enforce Compliance With Extant Rules, Regulations, APC Insists

By Suleiman Anyalewechi

The All Progressive Congress, APC, has warned that any political party that fails to meet up with stipulated guidelines should be prepared to face the consequences.

This is as the party insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is constitutionally mandated to enforce compliance with extant rules for the purpose of ensuring credibility and integrity of the electoral process.

The APC reaction is coming against the backdrop of claims by the the African Democratic Congress, ADC, alleging orchestrated plans to prevent it from fielding candidates ahead of the 2027 polls.

The ADC in a statement from its national spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, on Monday, April 6, 2026, expressed deep shock and disbelief that INEC has deliberately laid  what it described as “administrative mines with the sole aim of ensuring that it does not pose as a threat to the APC ,and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in the 2027 general elections.”

But in a statement on Tuesday April 7, 2026, from its spokesperson, Mogaji Seye Oladejo, the Lagos State Chapter of the APC while dismissing the ADC’s alarm insisted that the party must comply with extant rules and regulations governing the electoral process.

According to him, the INEC, as an institution, is empowered by the law, and also operates under established rules and regulations and not on sentiments.

The APC maintained that any political parties that do not meet the requirements for the election, should be prepared for the consequences of its actions, noting that the current challenges facing the ADC are neither new nor exceptional.

Referencing the fate that befell the APC in Zamfara state in 2019 , following the decision of the electoral body to bar the party from fielding candidates due to invalid primaries, it warned that no party is above the law.

The APC accused the ADC of trying to shift blame in an otherwise self-inflicted problems.

The APC, according to the spokesperson ,will never accept responsibility for  another party’s internal and leadership disputes.