Kogi/Bayelsa Elections: INEC Rejects 14 Invalid Nominations, As 19 Parties Withdraw - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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September 28, 2019
The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC hasrejected fourteen invalid submitted nominations by political parties for theNovember 16 governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information andVoter Education Committee, Festus Okoye in a statement in Abuja also announcedthat nineteen political parties willingly withdrew their nominations for theelections.
Okoye said that out of the fourteen rejected invalidnominations, eight were from Kogi six nominations were also rejected fromBayelsa states.
He said that at the close of nomination twenty threepolitical parties would be contesting in Kogi as eighteen parties withdrew fromthe race, while in Bayelsa one party withdrew leaving 45 political parties tocontest the state election.
Okoye recalled that INEC monitored the primaries conductedfor nomination of candidates for the two states, in which it on September 12,informed the public that sixty four political parties conducted primaries inBayelsa and fifty nine in Kogi.