The Independent National Electoral Commission and the All Progressives Congress are set for a showdown over the submission of the list of candidates for elections in Zamfara State, The PUNCH has learnt.
The deadline for submission of the names of the candidates for presidential and National Assembly election is Thursday (today) and the APC is expected to submit its own list today.
INEC had last week written a letter to the National Chairman of the APC, Adams Oshiomhole, explaining that the party would not be allowed to field any candidate except for the presidential election because the October 7 deadline for the conduct of primaries had lapsed.
However, a Zamfara State High Court had on Tuesday issued an interim order restraining the APC and INEC from disqualifying the party’s candidates from the state for the 2019 elections.
The suit was filed by three executive members of the APC in the state – the Chairman of the party in Gusau Local Government Area, Babangida Abdullahi; his counterpart in Tsafe Local Government Area, Kabiru Chafe, and Sanusi Dan-Alhaji.Justice Mukhtar issued an order of interim injunction ordering the APC, the party’s North-West zonal chairman and INEC to “maintain the status quo as at the time the plaintiffs filed the suit on October 8, 2018” which was not objected by their counsel.
The judge, thereafter, adjourned the matter till October 23 for hearing to enable the defendants to file their responses to the motion on notice before the court.
Speaking with The PUNCH on Wednesday, however, the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, said the court did not ask INEC to accept the list of candidates from Zamfara State.
He said the court asked all parties to “maintain the status quo” which he said implied that INEC’s decision stood.
Oyekanmi said, “We have seen the court order and it doesn’t change anything. The court said we should maintain the status quo and what is the status quo? The status quo is that as far as INEC is concerned, the deadline for the conduct of primaries elapsed and Zamfara has no list. That is the status quo.
“So, when the hearing begins, they can begin to argue why we should accept any list or not but the status quo is that the deadline elapsed and the APC did not conduct any primaries because submitting a list is different from conducting primaries.”
“You cannot generate a list without conducting primaries. The status quo is that INEC had said there was no conduct of primaries in Zamfara State within the stipulated time frame so the APC cannot submit a list to the INEC. That is the status quo as long as INEC is concerned.”
Attempts to get a reaction from the APC with respect to INEC’s insistence that it would not accept the Party’s nominees from Zamfara State were futile.
Calls to the mobile telephone number of the APC’s National Publicity Secretary, Mallam Lanre Issa-onilu, were neither picked nor returned.
A response to a text message sent to him on the subject was still being awaited as of 7:40 pm.
https://punchng.com/inec-apc-set-for-showdown-today-over-zamfara-candidates-list/
Lalasticlala

Believe them at your own peril ...The same INEC and APC that have been working in tandem to purchase court injunctions to fool the public with

Showdown kwa!

Why is everything APC always about militancy, Disturbance, and violence?

Where are those BMC

SarkinYarki:
Believe them at your own peril ...The same INEC and APC that have been working in tandem to purchase court injunctions to fool the public with

We are watching them bumper-to-bumper

engineerboat:
Where are those BMC

CilicMarin

INEC VS APC is more of barcelona vs barcelona, INEC is pseudo-APC

SarkinYarki:
Believe them at your own peril ...The same INEC and APC that have been working in tandem to purchase court injunctions to fool the public with

Read the post, we are watching the show, today is the last day.

Isn't there an existing judgment on the matter?

Oshomole is a mole

Law should not be bend for certain kind of people, apc should just accept their fate

Na dem sabi.... all I know is that Back to Daura 2019 is already happening!

The deadline has elapsed and the APC did not conduct any primaries because submitting a list is different from conducting primaries.

No amount of arm twisting can save APC in 2019. Lawless people! Confusion every where they go.

See what Buharimism has caused, anyway, get a capsule of Atikumycyn + Obisunate for complete eradication.

You guys should do the best thing that will.move the nation forward..
A better Nigeria is all we pray for.
STOP all these showdown talk and let's MOVE forward.

GOD BLESS NIGERIA.

I would like to thank PMB for his relentless fight against corruption. Although some people perceived the fight to be one-sided, I believe "at all at all na him bad pass".









As e be say Buhari don inconclusively defeat corruption and Boko haram, make him allow Atiku make him defeat Poverty technically

Stay Atikulated!

Kingosytex:
INEC VS APC is more of barcelona vs barcelona, INEC is pseudo-APC

So now you believe pmb till 2023 abi

vecman22:


So now you believe pmb till 2023 abi

naso.com

Even the month of Febuary warned us against Buhari but we didn't listen.It told us to Fearbuari

APC is in the shreds today because God's hands are stretched against it.

Yesterday Delta now Zamfara

Nothing will happen the comrade chairman will do the needful.
APC must field candidates, yistanas must cry

INEC vs APC..

Who wins it

Cool... If this were to be PDP. Deji adeyanju and co would have been saying INEC is compromised or partial. Same way they hail Inec when pdp was leading in osun, but story changed when APC won. This was even evidenced in the recent case of Kano governor when they were asking EFCC to prosecute a sitting governor,, regardless of his immunity status. They forget so soon how the efcc can't prosecute fayose cos of his immunity status. We need a good opposition that will put the government of the day on his toes not the ones that will be heating up the polity with baseless accusations. I still prefer APC in opposition Sha, but I can't afford to have PDP in government. Maybe sowore, Fela or Kingsley will be ok for me

INEC should stop behaving like a meddlesome interloper. It has no power to bar APC or any candidate from contesting. APC will contest all elective positions in Zamfara whether INEC likes it or not.

What's the difference between inec and apc? Getoutjoor

Omeokachie:
Showdown kwa!

Why is everything APC always about militancy, Disturbance, and violence?

Because their oga patapata is devil personified. If you know, you know

Believe these people at your own peril. INEC Chairman remains compromised. His conducts so far shows he cannot be trusted.

seems APC in Zamfara are too stubborn and many of them may have been responsible for d thuggery b banditry in that state, so ds is a blessing, maybe d crime rate will die down if the supporters are out of power for four years