APC Has No Senatorial Candidate In Yobe North, Akwa Ibom North – INEC

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no candidate for Yobe North and Akwa Ibom North West Senatorial Districts.

Festus Okoye, INEC spokesperson, said this on Sunday in an interview on Channels Television.

INEC had in June excluded Ahmad Lawan, senate president, and Godswill Akpabio, former minister of Niger Delta affairs, from the list of candidates contesting to represent Yobe north and Akwa Ibom north-west districts, respectively.

APC had submitted the names of Lawan and Akpabio as senatorial candidates, despite the controversy that surrounded the primaries involving the duo in their respective districts.

“In these two constituencies, two names were forwarded and the commission made a determination that the names were not persons who emerged from a validly conducted party primaries and we did not publish their names. That is where we are,” Okoye said during the interview.

“Their (Lawan and Akpabio) names were uploaded by the APC to our candidates’ nomination portal but the Commission made a determination that they were not the candidates that emerged from valid party primaries,” he added.

“The commission did not publish their names and their particulars in their constituencies. So, the implication is that as of today, the APC does not have candidates in those two constituencies.”