The Action Peoples Party has released a timetable for its primary elections ahead of the 2027 General Elections, a schedule approved by the party's National Working Committee and published as pre-primary activities began on May 6, 2026.
The schedule sets the sale and submission window for completed nomination and expression of interest forms from May 6 through May 25, 2026, and places the publication of cleared aspirants on May 27, 2026.
On the same day cleared aspirants are to be published, the party has scheduled its Presidential Primary for May 27, 2026, at the National Headquarters.
Two days later, on May 29, 2026, the party will hold its Senate Primary at Senatorial District Headquarters and its House of Representatives Primary at Federal Constituency Headquarters.
The timetable closes the following day: May 30, 2026, will host Governorship Primaries at States Secretariats and House of Assembly Primaries at Local Government Area Headquarters.
The party attached steep fees to the nomination and expression of interest process for most offices. The Presidential Nomination Form is pegged at N77 million, with a separate presidential expression of interest fee of N3 million.
Governorship aspirants are required to pay N7 million for the nomination form and N3 million for the expression of interest. Senatorial hopefuls will pay N3 million for nomination and N2 million for expression of interest, while aspirants for the House of Representatives must pay N3 million for nomination and N1 million for expression of interest.
For the House of Assembly, the party set the nomination form at N1 million and the expression of interest fee at N500,000. The timetable notes that women and persons living with disabilities will be issued nomination forms free of charge.
In announcing the timetable, the party said it is committed to conducting transparent, credible and fair primaries across all levels — a pledge that accompanies the formal approval by the National Working Committee and the public timetable for May activities.
The schedule creates a compact calendar: the sale window ends May 25, cleared aspirants are published May 27, and the Presidential Primary is also slated for May 27. The proximity of those events compresses the review and vetting period the party has allocated between submission deadlines and actual voting days.
Those compressed intervals and the high nomination fees are the clearest strains in the timetable. While the party has carved out exemptions for women and persons with disabilities, the overall price of entry for most aspirants reaches into the millions of naira and may limit the field where financial capacity matters as much as political support.
The timetable is the party’s first public blueprint for selection ahead of 2027. It sets clear administrative milestones and fees, fixes specific venues for each level of contest and brackets the nomination process into defined dates, leaving party officials, aspirants and delegates with a narrow window to complete the necessary formalities.
The single most consequential unanswered question now is whether the Action Peoples Party can translate its stated commitment to transparent, credible and fair primaries into practice under a timeline that leaves little room for extended vetting and with nomination fees that many will find prohibitive.
