{"id":1270,"date":"2026-10-26T04:31:50","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/omitted-candidates-pdp-adc-ndc-lp-meet-inecs-condition\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T04:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T04:31:50","slug":"omitted-candidates-pdp-adc-ndc-lp-meet-inecs-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/omitted-candidates-pdp-adc-ndc-lp-meet-inecs-condition\/","title":{"rendered":"Omitted candidates: PDP, ADC, NDC, LP meet INEC\u2019s condition"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Omitted<\/p>\n

\u2022INEC to clarify omitted candidate\u2019s status this week<\/em><\/p>\n

By Henry Umoru, John Alechenu, Luminous Jannamike & Emma Una<\/strong><\/p>\n

ABUJA \u2013 The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has met the Independent National Electoral Commission\u2019s, INEC, October 24 deadline for correcting the names of candidates omitted from its published list, the party\u2019s National Organising Secretary, Captain Umar Bature, retd, has said.<\/p>\n

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<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>The party\u2019s governorship candidates in Ogun(Oladipupo Adebutu), and Gombe(Prof Isa Pantanmi) and seven House of Assembly candidates were omitted in the list published by the electoral umpire, recently.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Apart from the PDP, other opposition parties such as the Social Democratic Party, SDP; Nigeria democratic Congress, NDC; African Democratic Congress, ADC; and\u00a0 Action Democratic Party, ADP; and Labour Party, LP,\u00a0 were also affected. The INEC gave the affected parties October 24 as deadline to correct the omissions.<\/p>\n

The affected candidates include governorship hopefuls in Gombe and Ogun states, as well as about six or seven House of Assembly candidates, whose names were missing from the list released by the electoral commission.<\/p>\n

Bature confirmed the development, yesterday, in a response to Vanguard, saying the PDP\u00a0 completed the corrections within the stipulated period.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, we met the deadline since,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

NDC, ADP meet INEC deadline on omitted candidates<\/h4>\n

Also, the National Leadership of the NDC said it met the INEC\u2019s deadline for correcting the names of candidates omitted from the published list.<\/p>\n

When Vanguard sought to know if the party has met the deadline, the NDC National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director simply said, \u201c Yes, we did.\u201d<\/p>\n

Similarly, the National leadership of the ADP said it met the deadline.<\/p>\n

Speaking with Vanguard yesterday, the National Chairman of the ADP, Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani,said, \u201cwe did. Thanks a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n

LP in good standing with INEC \u2014 Asogwa<\/h4>\n

in like manner, the National Publicity Secretary of the LP, Ken Asogwa, said the party is in good standing with the INEC on\u00a0 correction of names and replacement of candidates.<\/p>\n

His words: \u201cThe Labour Party is in good standing with INEC, including on matters relating to the correction of names and replacement of candidates,\u201d adding\u00a0 that the party is confident and looks forward to a successful outing for all its candidates in the forthcoming general elections.\u00a0<\/p>\n

INEC\u2019s clarification awaited<\/h4>\n

The electoral umpire has not released additional information on the status of the omitted candidates especially those NDC\u2019s John Upan and Ambassador Nkoyo Toyo of ADC in Cross River State\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ambassador Toyo told Vanguard that she had done all that was needed to be done before the deadline expired\u00a0 but INEC is yet to bring out the result.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey gave us the deadline of October 24 which was Saturday and I had done all that they asked for but they have not brought out any information. Let\u2019s wait for them\u201d<\/p>\n

Contacted, the Head, INEC Voter Education in Cross River , Mr Osaro Aisen, said: \u201cThe whole thing is handled from Abuja and it is a legal matter. Let\u2019s see what will come forth tomorrow (Monday).<\/p>\n

\u201cI cannot give you a categorical answer now till tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vanguard News<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2022INEC to clarify omitted candidate\u2019s status this week By Henry Umoru, John Alechenu, Luminous Jannamike & Emma Una ABUJA \u2013 The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has met the Independent National… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1271,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnigerianews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}