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2023 : 381 Women, 11 PWDs To Contest Presidential, National Assembly Elections – INEC

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September 21, 2022
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A total of 4,223 candidates will contest for the 469 Senatorial and House of Representatives positions in the coming 2023 general elections.

Festus Okoye, Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education Committee has announced in Abuja.

According to Okoye, 1,101 of the candidates are vying for 109 senatorial seats and while 3,122 candidates will be vying for 309 federal constituencies.

“In terms of gender distribution, 3,875 candidates are male, made up of 35 for presidential and vice presidential; 1,008 for senate and 2,832 for house of representatives. Similarly, 381 females comprising one for presidential, 92 for senate, and 288 for house of representatives are contesting. There are also 11 Persons with Disability (PWDs) in the race,” he said.

Okoye also said that 18 political parties have fielded candidates and their running mates for the presidential and national assembly elections.

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He said the commission at its weekly meeting held on Tuesday approved the final list of candidates for national elections (presidential, senatorial and federal constituencies) pursuant to Section 32(1) of the Electoral Act 2022 and item 8 of the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 General Election.

However, in the final list , Yobe North Senatorial District has no candidate from any of the 18 political parties contesting the elections.

Senator Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate and current senator from the district is at loggerhead with Adamu Machina who contested and won the Senatorial primary.

Lawan had contest the presidential primary of the APC and lost to Bola Tinubu.

National Chairman of the APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, had also warned that Machina risked severe sanctions if he refused to relinquish his ticket to Lawan.

Adamu claimed that the party is supreme and that it reserves the right to decide who gets its ticket in any election.

However, in Akwa Ibom, Akpabio, who also contested and lost the APC presidential primaries, was declared the winner of another primary.

His name was published as the APC candidate for the Akwa Ibom North-West, with INEC remark stating ‘Court Order’.

Okoye said the publication of the full names and addresses of all nominated candidates follows the political parties’ conduct of primaries and completion of the nomination exercise.

He also said that at end of the process, the personal particulars of all nominated candidates were displayed in their constituencies nationwide as provided by Section 29(3) of the Electoral Act.

“Subsequently, validly nominated candidates had the opportunity to voluntarily withdraw their candidature by notice in writing and personally deliver such notice to the political party that nominated them for the election.

“Thereafter, political parties substituted such candidates under Section 31 of the Electoral Act for which the last day was 15th July 2022 for national elections and 12th August 2022 for state elections as clearly provided in item 6 of the Commission’s Timetable and Schedule of Activities. Thereafter, no withdrawal or substitution of candidates is allowed except in the event of death as provided in Section 34(1) of the Electoral Act or pursuant to an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.

“The list published today (Tuesday) contains the names of candidates validly nominated for national elections at the close of party primaries and the period earmarked for withdrawal and substitution of candidates,” Okoye said.

He said that the final list of candidates for state elections (governorship and state constituencies) will be published on 4th October 2022 as already indicated on the Timetable and Schedule of Activities for the 2023 general elections.

He said, “We note the fact that not all the political parties conducted primaries in all the constituencies, submitted the particulars of candidates that emerged from valid primaries or substituted their candidates after fresh primaries within 14 days as provided in section 33 of the Electoral Act.

“This has led to numerous litigations, some of which are ongoing. Where the commission was served with Court orders by aggrieved aspirants or candidates before the publication of this list, these have been indicated under the remark column.”

He urged all political parties to channel any observations on the list of candidates to the commission and such must be signed by the national chairman and secretary of the political party and supported with an affidavit as provided in Section 32(2) of the Electoral Act 2022.

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