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Yobe Governorship Election

Planned Mundx Election Hub page for the yobe governorship election, scheduled for 6 February 2027.

Until Election Day · 6 February 2027

Election date
6 February 2027
Geography
Yobe · North East
INEC contest code
Statewide contest
Page status
Pre-election page; no results are published.

This page does not declare an election result. Only INEC declares official election results.

Election candidates

Candidates for Yobe

Provisional nominations

7 candidates are currently tracked for this contest. This provisional tracker may not yet reproduce every name displayed at the state INEC office; names and affiliations remain subject to correction or replacement.

7 tracked candidates · 7 parties
NowProvisional candidatesCandidate nominations and key dates
6 OctFinal candidate listConfirmed candidates and parties
Election dayLive Yobe countVotes, reporting coverage and checks
After declarationPermanent resultWinner, complete totals and LGA results
African Democratic Congress logoADCAfrican Democratic Congress

Kasim Gaidam

Action Democratic Party logoADPAction Democratic Party

Nasiru Saleh Mohammed

All Progressives Congress logoAPCAll Progressives Congress

Baba Malam Wali

Allied Peoples Movement logoAPMAllied Peoples Movement

Idrissa Madaki Ibrahim

New Nigeria Peoples Party logoNNPPNew Nigeria Peoples Party

Mohammed Umar

Peoples Democratic Party logoPDPPeoples Democratic Party

Abdullahi Sharif / Shariff Abdullahi

Social Democratic Party logoSDPSocial Democratic Party

Abba Bature

Statewide context

Yobe election geography

Local government areas
17
Wards
178
Polling units
2,823
2023 registered voters
1,485,146

State context

About the Yobe governorship election

The governor leads the state executive, implements state laws and public programmes, proposes the state budget and appoints commissioners subject to the constitutional role of the State House of Assembly.

In Yobe, this statewide contest spans 17 LGAs, 178 wards and 2,823 polling units. The 2023 register contained 1,485,146 voters. These figures provide context; the 2027 register may change before polling day.

Evidence and revisions

Sources and update history

Primary references

Revision history

  1. Published the provisional candidate tracker in party order with logos, election geography, 2023 baseline, sources and the permanent election lifecycle.
How this page will change

This permanent URL will move from provisional nominations to the final candidate list, live result reporting and the declared result. Mundx will record material substitutions, withdrawals and result corrections here. Until the complete official state list is independently verified, the count is labelled “currently tracked” rather than complete.

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