•APC candidates’ names missing as commission displays list in Zamfara
•Adelabu, Akala, Makinde make list in Oyo
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday started displaying the lists of cleared candidates of different political parties for next year’s elections. The candidates’ lists are being displayed at state offices of INEC. So far, the lists of candidates from the positions of governor to state houses of assembly are on display. The states that their lists are out include: Lagos, Zamfara, Kwara, Imo, Rivers, Oyo and Abia states. In Rivers State INEC Office, the names and photographs of governorship candidates, their deputies and political parties are on display.
While Governor Nyesom Wike and his current deputy, Dr. Ipalibo Banigo-Happy, maintained the list for the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PDP), Engr. Tonye Cole and Sir Victor Giadon made the list for the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The Supreme Court in Abuja penultimate week nullified the ward, local government and state congresses that brought about the leadership of Amachree as APC state chairman.
Cole’s details with those of his running mate, Victor Giadom, were pasted at the Rivers INEC office in Port Harcourt, among candidates representing other political parties.
The commission equally pasted other nominees of Amaechi’s APC faction for other elective offices in the coming elections when visited the commission’s Port Harcourt office.
Sen. Abe could not be reached for reactions at the time of filing the report yesterday evening, but it was learnt that his spokesman and media aide in the state, Parry Benson, said: “There is nothing really for us to say. It is a matter for the APC national body.”
In Kwara State, the governorship candidates of PDP, APC and 30 other candidates from other political parties made the INEC list for the governorship poll.
The APC has Abdulrahman Abdulrasak, PDP submitted Razak Atunwa, while Labour Party has Comrade Issa Aremu. The three female governorship candidates are Muibi Muibat Aduke of the APA, Deaconess Comfort Yinka of the UPP and Rukayat Toyin Tijani of the MPN.
INEC Director, Voter Education, Jacob Ayanda, said that the political parties have the opportunity to change or replace names on or before December 1, this year.
In Imo State, there was an initial drama when the first INEC list came out with the name of the governorship candidate of the APC conspicuously missing. However, a few hours later, the name of Senator Hope Uzodinma was displayed as the candidate of the APC. The display of Uzodinma’s name was said to have been based on the directive from the National head
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