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Alams, Adeleke, Yakowa, Akunyili still on INEC’s register years after death
The names of three former governors who died years back are listed on the Independent National Electoral Commission register for the 2019 general elections, investigations by The PUNCH have revealed.
They are Diepreye Alamieyeseigha (Bayelsa State), Isiaka Adeleke (Osun State) and Patrick Yakowa (Kaduna State).
While Yakowa died in December 2012, Alamieyeseigha and Adeleke died in 2015 and 2017 respectively.
Also on the voter list are the names of the late former Vice-President Alex Ekwueme and the late former Minister of Information and Communications, Prof. Dora Akunyili, who once headed the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control. She died on June 7, 2014.
The PUNCH correspondent, who examined INEC’s register on Monday, observed that the late Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr James Ocholi (SAN), was still on the voter register. Ocholi died in a road accident with his wife and son on March 6, 2016.
The PUNCH, December 27, 2018
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