{"id":59723,"date":"2018-11-09T13:02:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59723"},"modified":"2018-11-09T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:03:18","slug":"inec-releases-names-of-candidates-for-katsina-bauchi-kwara-cross-river-bye-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=59723","title":{"rendered":"INEC releases names of candidates for Katsina, Bauchi, Kwara, Cross River bye-elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released names of political parties and their nominated candidates for bye-elections in Katsina, Bauchi, Kwara and Cross River State, scheduled for Nov. 17.<\/p>\n

The list was released in a statement signed by INEC National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The bye-elections are for Kankia\/Kusada\/lngawa Federal Constituency of Katsina State, Toro Federal Constituency of Bauchi State, Ekiti\/lrepodun\/Isin\/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara, and lkom ll State Constituency of Cross River State.<\/p>\n

According to INEC, four political parties submitted nominations for the Kankia\/Kusada\/lngawa Federal Constituency of Katsina State bye-election, as at Nov. 6, which was the last day for the submission of Forms CF001 and CF002.<\/p>\n

The parties and their nominated candidates are Peoples Redemption Party (PRP), Nasiru Kankia; Yes Electorate Solidarity (YES), Abdullahi Umar; Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) , Abdussamad Abdullahi; and the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Kusada.<\/p>\n

The Commission also disclosed that two political parties submitted nominations for Toro Federal Constituency of Bauchi State bye-election.<\/p>\n

These are PDP with Shehu Umar as its candidates, as well as the APC with Yusuf Nuhu as its candidate.<\/p>\n

For Ekiti\/lrepodun\/Isin\/Oke-Ero Federal Constituency of Kwara, the Commission said five political parties nominated candidates including the Labour Party, Femi Ana-Ara; and the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), Olaniyan Ayorinde.<\/p>\n

Others are PDP, Jimoh Damilare; Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) Ajayi Bidemi; and the APC, Olawuyi Tunji.<\/p>\n

Okoye also disclosed that only the PDP nominated candidate, Egbong Nkoro, for the bye-election in the lkom ll State Constituency of Cross River State.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe bye-elections will hold as scheduled on Nov. 17. To this end, all arrangements have been made for the successful conduct of the elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Commission implores all participating political parties and their candidates to cooperate with it to ensure peaceful and successful elections,\u201d he said.\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has released names of political parties and their nominated candidates for bye-elections in Katsina, Bauchi, Kwara and Cross River State, scheduled for Nov. 17. The list was released in a statement signed by INEC National Commissioner, and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Festus Okoye on Thursday in Abuja. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[292,7602,48,320,1893],"class_list":["post-59723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-bauchi","tag-bye-election","tag-inec","tag-katsina","tag-kwara"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}