Commission, (INEC), has said it is the Commission’s responsibility to either reject or accept the list of candidates submitted to it by political parties.



INEC director for Voters’ Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze Uzzi made the declaration in a telephone interview with Tribune Online.

The main opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), has accused INEC of a purported plot to bend the rules to smuggle in candidates from the Zamfara state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), which the PDP noted failed to conclude its primaries on Sunday, the last day for completion of processes for the emergence of candidates for all elective offices ahead of the general elections.

The PDP further alleged that it was aware of a meeting “between topmost officials of INEC and Zamfara state government, where the commission was instructed to manipulate the system and bend the rules to accommodate the APC. ”

But in his reaction, the INEC spokesperson appealed to the main opposition party not to heat up the polity by making claims it could not substantiate.

He said: ” We are waiting for the parties to submit their list before we know what to do.


” It is not for the PDP to tell us what happened and what did not happen, “We don’t want to second guess. Let us wait for the final date.”

seanfer:
PDP is always playing the Victim card.... In isolo constituency 2 PDP is yet to have a candidate, they’re planning to bring a consensus candidate, but they’re here shouting about Zamfara when they’re also guilty of the same thing they are doing underground... I know about the Isolo2 because my cousin is among the Aspirants and he told me this yesterday 9/10/18

qarada:

Same way hatred needs to be beaten of every Igbo on the street of Nigeria.

seanfer:
PDP is always playing the Victim card.... In isolo constituency 2 PDP is yet to have a candidate, they’re planning to bring a consensus candidate, but they’re here shouting about Zamfara when they’re also guilty of the same thing they are doing underground... I know about the Isolo2 because my cousin is among the Aspirants and he told me this yesterday 9/10/18

holllandis:
If I see this man for Street
I go beat am

qarada:

Same way hatred needs to be beaten of every Igbo on the street of Nigeria.

KanwuliaMama:
USELESS INEC!

Are the allegations TRUE or FALSE?

slivertongue:
INEC is now a department in APC

Awol1:
In other words, they have concluded plans to smuggle the names in abi?

Let them continue, whatever has a beginning has an end.

qarada:

Same way hatred needs to be beaten of every Igbo on the street of Nigeria.

baba4dgirls:
Yes PDP isnt supposed to tell you what to do.

But the law should.
The same bye-laws you applied to declare an already won election inconclusive, should be strictly adhered here.

It hurts to know we have bigots in power.

qarada:

Same way hatred needs to be beaten of every Igbo on the street of Nigeria.