The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), at the weekend, released the list of governorship candidates of the 17 political parties contesting the September 21 governorship election in Edo State, while the name of the Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, was conspicuously missing.
Among the candidates include the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Ighodalo Asuerinme; All Progressives Congress (APC), Okpebholo Monday, and Accord Party (AP), Iyere Kennedy.
Others are Boot Party (BP), Osirame Edeipo; Action Alliance (AA), Uwaifo Osaro; Social Democratic Party (SDP), Aner Abdullai Aliu; New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Azena Azemhe Friday and All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Osifo Isiah.
Also on the list are the candidates of the All People Movement (APM), Ugiagbe Odaro Syvelster; All Peoples Party (APP), Areleogbe Amos Osalumese; Action Democratic Party (ADP), Akhime Kingson Afere; African Action Congress (AAC), Udoh Obersifo David, and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP), Akhalamhe Amiemenoghena.
African Democratic Congress (ADC) has Obazele Paul Agbone; Labour Party (LP), Olumide Akpata Anthony; People Redemption Party (PRP), Key patience Ndidi, and Young Progressives Party (YPP), Okungbowa Paul Ovbokhan.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), in Edo, Dr. Anugbum Onuoha, displayed the list on the notice board in Edo State’s INEC office and in all INEC offices across the 18 local councils of the state.
INEC said: “Any aspirant who participated in his/her party’s primary, with reasonable grounds to believe that the information provided by the candidate is false, can challenge the nomination in a Federal High Court, as provided for in Section 29(5) of the Electoral Act 2022.”
