Speaking in an interview with with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
on Tuesday in Abuja, Nick Dazang, the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC), Deputy Director for Voter Education and Publicity,
said Osagie Ize-Iyamu has been endorsed by the commission as the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Edo September 10 governorship
election
He said the decision to accept Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the PDP led
by Ahmed Makarfi, was informed by the court’s decision on the matter.
“The commission collected the nomination from Makarfi-led
faction because he has a court judgment that says INEC should accept his
candidate.
“Secondly, you will recall that it is only his own faction of PDP primary that the commission monitored,” Dazang said.
The commission also said that it decided to reject the list sent by
the Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the PDP based on the fact that it did
not monitor the primary that produced the faction’s governorship
candidate, Matthew Iduoriyekwemwen.
Dazang added that the commission had received nomination forms from
19 political parties including the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“As of this evening, we have received 19 candidates from 19
political parties for the Edo governorship election. These include the
candidate of the Makarfi-led faction of the PDP. We received the
candidate of the Makarfi-led faction because of the Port Harcourt court
judgement plus the fact that we monitored its primaries,” he said.
He listed others as: Action Aliance (AA), African Democratic
Congress (ACD), Advance Congress of Democrats (ACD), Allied Congress
Party of Nigeria (ACPN), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA),
Citizens Popular Party (CPP), Independent Democrats (ID) among others.
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