With Three Days To INEC’s Deadline Left, Kwankwaso, Sowore’s Names Missing

A former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, who is the presidential candidate of NNPP and Omoyele Sowore, who is the candidate of the AAC, are yet to upload their nominations for the 2023 presidential election.

Naija News reports that this was made known in a statement on Wednesday by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

INEC National Commissioner in charge of Information and Voter Education Committee, Festus Okoye, said the New Nigeria Peoples Party and the African Action Congress still have three days for the nomination of candidates for the election.

Acccrding to Okoye, 6,995 nomination forms uploaded by 16 out of 18 political parties for the constituencies have been processed.

He said: “However, two political parties, the African Action Congress AAC and New Nigeria Peoples Party NNPP, are yet to upload a single nomination to the portal.

“The Commission hereby reminds all political parties that they have three days left to upload their list of candidates to the ICNP. The deadline is Friday 15th July 2022. The portal will automatically shut down at 6.00pm on that date.

“The number of requests processed has now risen to 1,662,987 pages of documents. Sadly, in spite of the Commission’s effort, 147 out of 476 requests processed as of today involving 5,646 pages are yet to be collected by applicants.

“The Commission appeals to prospective litigants to come forward and collect the certified copies of the documents.”