About ElectioneeriNG
ElectioneeriNG is a free public reference for Nigerian elections. It brings together who holds which office, who is contesting, which party they stand for, and what published evidence supports each of those statements, in one place and in one consistent format.
Why it exists
Election information is scattered, and that has a cost
Facts about candidates and offices are spread across official notices, party statements, news reports and social media, published at different times and in different formats. Anyone trying to answer a simple question, such as who is standing in their constituency, has to reconcile all of it themselves.
This service does that reconciliation in public, keeps the sources attached to the claims, and shows plainly where the evidence runs out.
Where we stand
Non-partisan by design, not by promise
ElectioneeriNG does not endorse, rank, recommend or predict. It does not declare winners, and it does not tell anyone how to vote. Those are not editorial preferences, they are constraints built into the product: there is no ranking mechanism to invoke and no overall candidate score to publish.
Where information is missing, the page says so in the same words everywhere rather than leaving a blank that a reader might fill in with an assumption. Missing evidence is never treated as a mark against a candidate, and it is never quietly counted in their favour either.
What this service is
Seven things that describe it
- Independent. Not owned by, funded by or acting for any party, campaign, candidate or government body.
- Non-partisan. It does not endorse, rank, recommend or predict, and it never tells anyone how to vote.
- Evidence-led. Every published claim traces to a dated source a reader can go and check for themselves.
- Explainability-first. Anything the service asserts, it also explains: what the words mean, where the information came from, and what is still unknown.
- Moderated. A person reviews every contribution before it reaches a public page, and the decision is recorded.
- Built with community contributions. Anyone can supply a correction or a missing record, and the best ones arrive with a citation.
- A historical civic archive. Records are kept after an election, not cleared away. What was claimed, on what evidence, and what was later corrected all stay on the record, because that is what makes the next election legible.
How it works
Evidence first, and visibly so
Every published claim about a person traces to a source that a reader can go and check. Candidacy, party affiliation and officeholding are kept as three separate questions, because they genuinely are: holding an office today does not mean standing for it again, and being reported as an aspirant does not make someone a party’s candidate.
Records carry the exact stage they have reached, from a reported aspirant through to a confirmed official candidate, and they are never promoted to a stronger claim than the evidence supports.
Contribute
Anyone can suggest a correction
If something here is wrong, out of date or missing, you can tell us. Submissions are reviewed by a person before anything public changes, and the review keeps a record of what was changed and why. Nothing you send is published automatically.
Contributions are most useful when they come with a source: a published notice, a report, an official list. A correction with a citation can be acted on; one without usually cannot.