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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released the list of governorship and state House of Assembly candidates in Rivers State with the names of candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) conspicuously absent.
In the list published Thursday at the INEC Secretariat on Aba road, our reporter noted that APC had no candidates.
A high court sitting in Port Harcourt, the state capital, had ruled that the party cannot field candidates for the forthcoming elections.
Justice James Omotosho had in a ruling voided the party’s congresses, on the grounds that they were conducted in outright violation of subsisting court orders, and issued a restraining order on INEC to drop the APC from participating in the elections.
Two weeks ago, INEC also failed to publish the names of APC candidates for the National Assembly elections in Rivers State, citing the court order that the candidates’ names should be removed from the list of those contesting the 2019 general election.