Both Omoyele Sowore, the candidate of the AAC, and a former governor of Kano State named Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso have failed to upload their candidacy for the 2023 presidential election.
This was announced by the Independent National Electoral Commission in a statement on Wednesday, according to Anaedoonline.ng (INEC).
Festus Okoye, National Commissioner of INEC in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, stated that the African Action Congress and the New Nigeria Peoples Party still have three days to nominate candidates for the election.
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According to Okoye, 6,995 of the 18 political parties’ submitted nomination forms for the constituencies have been processed.
He said: “However, two political parties, the African Action Congress AAC and New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, are yet to upload a single nomination to the portal.
“The Commission hereby reminds all political parties that they have three days left to upload their list of candidates to the ICNP. The deadline is Friday 15th July 2022. The portal will automatically shut down at 6.00pm on that date.
“The number of requests processed has now risen to 1,662,987 pages of documents. Sadly, in spite of the Commission’s effort, 147 out of 476 requests processed as of today involving 5,646 pages are yet to be collected by applicants.
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“The Commission appeals to prospective litigants to come forward and collect the certified copies of the documents.”
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