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Sandy Ojang Onor

Sandy Ojang Onor is a professor of history at the University of Calabar who served as executive chairman of Etung Local Government Council and as a Cross River State commissioner. He represented Cross River Central in the Senate from 2019 to 2023.

PDP60 years old·From Ikom

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Particulars · INEC
Name as listed
ONOR SANDY OJANG
Party
PDP
Age
60
Gender
Male
Qualifications
FSLC W.A.S.C. PH.D

As printed on INEC's final list of candidates. Spelling and order of names are INEC's.

Vice-presidential candidate
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Umaru Babangida

National Vice Chairman (North East) of the Abdulrahman Mohammed-led PDP; named running mate in July 2026.

61 years old · FSLC W.A.S.C. DIPLOMA

The primary

Declared the consensus presidential candidate of the Wike-backed, Abdulrahman Mohammed-led PDP as its sole aspirant; results were presented at the party secretariat in Abuja on 26 May 2026 by a committee chaired by Samuel Ortom, with INEC officials monitoring.

Disputes and court cases

  • Factional dispute: INEC recognises the PDP leadership led by Abdulrahman Mohammed (backed by FCT Minister Nyesom Wike), which nominated Onor, after a Supreme Court judgment nullified the party's 2025 Ibadan convention. A rival interim leadership led by Kabiru Tanimu Turaki ratified former President Goodluck Jonathan as its candidate at a special convention on 30 May 2026 and manually submitted his nomination to INEC. Jonathan is not on INEC's list. In July 2026 the Federal High Court, Abuja struck out a suit seeking INEC recognition of the Turaki leadership, holding it an internal party matter; the faction said it would appeal (outcome not found as of 1 October 2026). Jonathan had not publicly accepted or rejected the nomination in reports up to September 2026.

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As reported up to the date of this record. A court may since have ruled.

Manifesto
  1. 1

    Put rural development and grassroots empowerment at the centre of policy, treating insecurity as a product of rural poverty

  2. 2

    Fully implement local government autonomy so councils are funded directly to create jobs and back vigilantes and traditional institutions

  3. 3

    Keep the fuel-subsidy removal but track the savings down to the grassroots

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On INEC's final list of candidates.

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