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.
The party’s governorship candidates in Ogun(Oladipupo Adebutu), and Gombe(Prof Isa Pantanmi) and seven House of Assembly candidates were omitted in the list published by the electoral umpire, recently.
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, as well as 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.
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.
When Vanguard sought to know if the party has met the deadline, the NDC National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director simply said, “ Yes, we did.”
