Edo guber: NRM storms INEC over candidate’s exclusion

The leadership of the National Rescue Movement (NRM), yesterday led a protest to the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) over the exclusion of its Edo State governorship candidate in the list published by the commission on March 3.

The national publicity secretary of the party, Mr Olusola Afuye, who read their petition amidst protest by leaders and supporters, said the INEC in Edo State, led by the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Dr Anugbum Onuoha, displayed the list on its notice board and in all its offices across the 18 local government areas on Saturday, but  the name of their candidate, Dr Dennis Osaron Aikoriogie was missing.

He said that Aikoriogie duly participated in the party’s legitimate primary election monitored by INEC.

“The NRM demands that INEC should immediately upload the name and credentials of our candidate or risk scuttling the entire process, which has cost the country a lot of taxpayers’ money,” Afuye said.

The INEC chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, represented by Major-General Abubakar Modibbo Alkali, a national commissioner and acting chairman of the security committee of the commission, while receiving the petition, said the commission would look into it and act according to extant laws related to their complaints.