2023: APC, PDP lost one governor each before elections
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC released list of candidates cleared to contest for various positions in the 2023 elections, Wednesday.
However there are indications that the All Progressives Party, APC has lost the governorship contest in Akwa Ibom State even before the general elections are conducted in 2023.
In the list released on Wednesday, there is no governorship candidate of the APC in Akwa Ibom State.
Mr. Akan Udofia, who recently defected to the APC from PDP, was earlier announced as the party’s governorship candidate on 27 May but Hhs name is missing from the recently released list. It was disclosed that it is due to the crisis in the state chapter of the party and the refusal of INEC to monitor the primary election which produced him as a candidate. The candidacy of Akan Udofia was rejected in line with the Electoral Act of 2022.
In Ogun State, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP has no gubernatorial candidate as the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), indicated on the list of those cleared to contest the 2023 elections in the state.It was disclosed that it is as a result of a lawsuit filed by three members of the PDP, which led to the nullification of all primaries conducted by the PDP in the state.
