Kwara APC writes INEC, demands withdrawal of candidates’ list

Ishola Balogun-Fulani led All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara state has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to withdraw the list of candidates of the party from Kwara State

 published by the commission last week.

In a letter, addressed to the Chairman, INEC, through its counsel, Yusuf O. Ali & Co., and dated 21st January 2019, the party charged INEC to publish the names of the candidates submitted by its party in line with the judgment of Kwara state High Court to sanitize the processes associated with the publication of the names of eligible candidates “by restoring credibility and legality to the commission in the spirit of rule of law.”

 The letter was also copied to the European Union, the Socio-Economic Right and Accountability Project (SERAP). Kwara APC expressed dismay and bewilderment that INEC “published strange names as Senatorial and House of Representatives candidates benefiting from judgment of the Kwara state High Court delivered in  suit as candidates of the

APC from Kwara state against whose names “Court Order” was written in the list of names of candidates published by your Commission on 17th January 2019.

“It is an undisputable fact that apart from the aforesaid judgment of the Kwara state High Court delivered on the 19th December,2018, which has not been set aside by the Appeal Court, the only time the Court of Appeal sat in respect of the appeal lodged against the Kwara state High Court judgment of the 19th December, 2018 was the sitting of the Court of Appeal, Ilorin Division held on the 14th January 2019 during which it never issued an order setting aside the judgment of Kwara state High Court delivered on the 19th December, 2018,” the letter stated.

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