Kogi Guber: INEC Confirms 59 Candidates
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has disclosed that no fewer than 59 candidates have won their party primaries to contest the November 16 Kogi state governorship elections.
The commission made the disclosure in separate documents for the primary elections results it made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.
The documents indicated the names of political parties, date of the primaries, the mode of primaries adopted, winners, gender and remarks, names of aspirants and votes scored.
The documents also revealed that in Kogi, INEC monitored the primaries conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) which produced Yahaya Bello as well as Musa Wada as winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary in the state.
Also on the list were Abubakar Mohammed as winner of primary by Accord, Mrs Harirat Yakubu for Labour Party; Ephraim Medurin, Alliance for Democracy (AD); Natasha Akpoti, Social Democratic Party (SDP) and 53 others.
The document indicated that only three women out of 59 emerged as candidates from Kogi for the Nov. 16 elections.
INEC Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said that they were just results of primaries monitored by INEC, not candidates list for the governorship elections.
Osaze-Uzzi said that the documents were just results of parties primaries monitored by INEC.
“Kindly note for purposes of clarity and to avoid any ambiguity that the lists above are not the list of candidates contesting the respective governorship elections. They are the results of political parties primaries monitored by the commission.
“Some parties may chose, for whatever reason, not to sponsor any candidate even after conducting primaries,” he said.
The commission made the disclosure in separate documents for the primary elections results it made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja.
The documents indicated the names of political parties, date of the primaries, the mode of primaries adopted, winners, gender and remarks, names of aspirants and votes scored.
The documents also revealed that in Kogi, INEC monitored the primaries conducted by the All Progressives Congress (APC) which produced Yahaya Bello as well as Musa Wada as winner of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) primary in the state.
Also on the list were Abubakar Mohammed as winner of primary by Accord, Mrs Harirat Yakubu for Labour Party; Ephraim Medurin, Alliance for Democracy (AD); Natasha Akpoti, Social Democratic Party (SDP) and 53 others.
The document indicated that only three women out of 59 emerged as candidates from Kogi for the Nov. 16 elections.
INEC Director of Publicity and Voter Education, Mr Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, said that they were just results of primaries monitored by INEC, not candidates list for the governorship elections.
Osaze-Uzzi said that the documents were just results of parties primaries monitored by INEC.
“Kindly note for purposes of clarity and to avoid any ambiguity that the lists above are not the list of candidates contesting the respective governorship elections. They are the results of political parties primaries monitored by the commission.
“Some parties may chose, for whatever reason, not to sponsor any candidate even after conducting primaries,” he said.
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