Omitted candidates: PDP, ADC, NDC, LP meet INEC’s condition.
•INEC to clarify omitted candidate’s status this week By Henry Umoru, John Alechenu, Luminous Jannamike & Emma Una ABUJA – The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has met the Independent National Electoral Commission’s, INEC, October 24 deadline for correcting the names of candidates omitted from its published list, the party’s National Organising Secretary, Captain Umar Bature, retd, has said.
Apart from the PDP, other opposition parties such as the Social Democratic Party, SDP; Nigeria democratic Congress, NDC; African Democratic Congress, ADC; and Action Democratic Party, ADP; and Labour Party, LP, were also affected.
The INEC gave the affected parties October 24 as deadline to correct the omissions.
The affected candidates include governorship hopefuls in Gombe and Ogun states, and about six or seven House of Assembly candidates, whose names were missing from the list released by the electoral commission. Bature confirmed the development, yesterday, in a response to Vanguard, saying the PDP completed the corrections within the stipulated period. “Yes, we met the deadline since,” he said. NDC, ADP meet INEC deadline on omitted candidates Also, the National Leadership of the NDC said it met the INEC’s deadline for correcting the names of candidates omitted from the published list.
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