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INEC, APC set for showdown today over Zamfara candidates’ list

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The Independent National Electoral Commission and the All Progressives Congress are set for a showdown over the submission of the list of candidates for elections in Zamfara State, The PUNCH has learnt.

The deadline for submission of the names of the candidates for presidential and National Assembly election is Thursday (today) and the APC is expected to submit its own list today.

INEC had last week written a letter to the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, explaining that the party would not be allowed to field any candidate except for the presidential election because the October 7 deadline for the conduct of primaries had lapsed.

However, a Zamfara State High Court had on Tuesday issued an interim order restraining the APC and INEC from disqualifying the party’s candidates from the state for the 2019 elections.

The PUNCH, October 18, 2018

 

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