Peter Obi in a black tunic against a grey studio ground, turned slightly, smiling
Peter Obi

Nigeria decides 2027

Nigeria
will be OK

Peter Obi from the south has merged with Rabiu Kwankwaso from the north. A ticket that'll unite Nigeria.

Rabiu Kwankwaso, Peter Obi and Bishop Isaac Idahosa photographed from behind on a platform, an arm raised to a crowd of tens of thousands in red and white Kano caps

The countdown

Take back
your country

That is how long you have. On Saturday 16 January 2027 you choose a president and a National Assembly. Three weeks later, on Saturday 6 February, you choose your governor and your state assembly.

The running mate

The man in
the red cap

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso was an engineer for seventeen years before he was anything else, rising to principal water engineer in Kano's water agency. He was Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives at thirty-six, Governor of Kano twice, Minister of Defence between the two terms, and Senator for Kano Central after them.

In 2023 he ran for president himself. In 2026, he merged forces with Peter Obi, uniting the red caps of the Kwankwasiyya and the Obidients.

Supporters of the two men had already put their initials together into one word: the OK Movement, launched in Abuja on 21 April 2026 out of the Obidients, the Kwankwasiyya and the New Nigeria Peoples Party, weeks before there was a ticket to support. Men mount.

Rabiu Kwankwaso in a red and white cap, smiling, seated among delegates in dark blue caps and lanyards
  1. 2,600Kano students sent abroad on scholarship in one term as governor, across fourteen countries
  2. 230secondary schools built in that term, forty-seven of them technical colleges
  3. 1,496,687votes as a presidential candidate in 2023, fourth in the field
Rabiu Kwankwaso in a red and white cap speaking into a microphone from a balcony above a street packed with thousands of people
The red caps came with him.

The party

Nigeria
Democratic
Congress

This is the party you will find on your ballot. INEC registered the Nigeria Democratic Congress on 23 February 2026, nine years after the application was first made. Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso joined it on 3 May; seventeen members of the House of Representatives and two senators followed within the week.

Ikenna Morgan Enekweizu is its national secretary and its office is at 4 Odenna Close in Wuse II, Abuja. It carries pan-Africanism, civic nationalism and federalism on its own account of itself.

Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso seated side by side in conversation, both in Nigeria Democratic Congress colours
Rabiu Kwankwaso shaking hands with Senator Seriake Dickson, who is wearing a Nigeria Democratic Congress cap, in front of a wooden wall

The founder

Seriake
Dickson

Senator Henry Seriake Dickson founded the party and is its national leader. He was a police officer before he was a lawyer, Attorney-General of Bayelsa State in 2006, a member of the House of Representatives from 2007, Governor of Bayelsa for two terms from 14 February 2012, and has held Bayelsa West in the Senate since December 2020.

The chairman

Cleopas
Zuwoghe

Senator Cleopas Moses Zuwoghe chairs the party he helped found. Like its founder he is a Bayelsa man: he took Bayelsa Central in a bye-election in December 2020, the same month Dickson took Bayelsa West, and the two of them sat together in the ninth National Assembly. He won that seat on a Peoples Democratic Party ticket and left it for a party he had a hand in building.

The mark

Two
fingers

The emblem is the victory sign: two fingers in the party's blue, with NDC in red beneath and a promise under that. The party adopted it at its first National Executive Committee meeting on 25 March 2026.

A Federal High Court in Lokoja ordered the party deregistered over the emblem it was first registered with, in June. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik settled it in Abuja on 8 September, in suit FHC/ABJ/CS/1814/2026, and INEC uploaded the recognised design on 10 September.

Get familiar

The Nigeria Democratic Congress emblem: a hand making a victory sign inside a square keyline, NDC in red beneath it, and the words Service to the People.The Nigeria Democratic Congress roundel: the victory-sign emblem on a blue disc, with the party's name set in red around the ring.The Nigeria Democratic Congress wordmark: NDC in red beside the victory-sign emblem, above the party's full name.

On the ballot paper the two fingers are what you are looking for, so get familiar now.

The emblem INEC recognised, 10 September 2026 · Artwork by LEYE

Our march to a New
Nigeria cannot be halted.
A detour, yes, but the
destination is certain.

Peter Obi, 27 June 2026

Voting

Get your
PVC

You can no longer register: that closed on Sunday 26 July 2026, after 10,772,421 more Nigerians put their names down and took the roll close to a hundred million. So the queueing is behind you and the rest is yours. Go and collect your card from the registration area where you enrolled.

Then carry it to your unit on the day, vote, and do not go home. Stay until the result for your unit has been announced and posted where you can see it. That is the part people leave early for, and it is the part that decides whether the first part counted.

Campaigning stops on 15 January, and after that the only voice left is yours. Your street, your market, your office, your WhatsApp groups: that is ground no billboard reaches and no rally covers. If you believe Nigeria will be OK, say so to the people who already have your number.

A street packed with people, hands and phones raised, as a vehicle moves slowly through

We will vote, and our votes
MUST count.

Where to check

  1. INEC, the election calendar
  2. INEC, the voter registration portal
  3. IReV, the result viewing portal

Nigeria
will be OK.

Obi. Kwankwaso.

Sources

  1. Vanguard, Kwankwaso named running mate
  2. ThisDay, the NDC ratifies the ticket
  3. Leadership, the defections that followed
  4. Vanguard, the NDC receives its INEC certificate
  5. Wikipedia, Rabiu Kwankwaso
  6. Wikipedia, Nigeria Democratic Congress
  7. Wikipedia, Henry Seriake Dickson
  8. Wikipedia, Moses Cleopas
  9. Daily Trust, supporters launch the OK Movement
  10. Vanguard, the Lokoja order against the party
  11. Vanguard, the court orders INEC to use the NDC logo
  12. TheNigeriaLawyer, INEC uploads the modified logo and the leadership
  13. Voice of Nigeria, the INEC campaign timetable
  14. INEC, the election calendar
  15. INEC, the continuous voter registration portal
  16. Vanguard, the register nears 100 million
  17. Vanguard, Peter Obi in Port Harcourt

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