Barely four days to the
governorship elections, the All Progressives Congress, APC, has no governorship
candidate in Enugu State.
It could be re-called that a
Federal High Court in Abuja, had sacked Senator Ayogu Eze as the governorship
candidate of the party in Enugu State.
In the judgement delivered by Hon.
Justice I. Ekwo of the Federal High Court 5, the court asked the Independent
National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognize Barr. George Ogara as the
candidate.
But several days after the
judgement, it was gathered that the APC National Working Committee, NWC, was
yet to obey the order of the court, which had asked that Ogara’s name be
submitted to the INEC.
Ogara said that he
served all the relevant parties the court judgement, and wondered why they were
yet to comply appropriately.
Following the development, the
commission has now removed the name of the party’s candidate in its final list
for the March 9 governorship election.
A check on the INEC final list as
published in its website showed that Enugu APC had no candidate.
The list signed by Rose
Oriaran-Anthony, Secretary, INEC, said it was in obedience to court order as
the party was yet to submit a fresh name after Ayogu was sacked.
In the 330-page final list of
candidates, Enugu occupied pages 100 to 111, with the APC having ‘NONE’ in the
provision for candidate.
Attached is the page where APC’s
name appeared on the list.
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