The Edo State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has criticized the final list of candidates for the state governorship on 21 September, released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In the list published by INEC, Oluyinka Faith Alufohai is listed as the party’s deputy governorship candidate instead of Alhaji Asamah Yusuf Kadiri (SAN).
This development has, however, thrown the party in Edo into confusion.
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The LP’s candidate for the election, Olumide Akpata, had earlier dropped Oluyinka Faith Alufohai for Alhaji Asamah Yusuf Kadiri as his running mate.
Rejecting the final names, the State chairman of the party, Kelly Ogbaloi, in a statement in Benin, appealed to the party members not to be disturbed by the development.
He absolved the electoral umpire of what he described as “simply a technical error.”
Ogbaloi noted that the state chapter of the party actually submitted the name of Alhaji Kadiri as its deputy governorship candidate but was wrongly substituted at the party’s national headquarters due to a “technical glitch.
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