2027: INEC rejects Jonathan’s candidacy as Turaki’s PDP insists on manual submission
By Omeiza Ajayi & Luminous Jannamike The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has rejected former President Goodluck Jonathan’s presidential nomination submitted by the Kabiru Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Tracing the roots of the crisis, he said the party’s Board of Trustees BoT and a requisitioned National Executive Committee NEC meeting constituted the Interim National Working Committee NWC after a Supreme Court judgment left the PDP without a legally recognised national leadership.
He said; “hould the Commission publish names other than those lawfully submitted by us… we are exhausting every constitutional, legal and democratic avenue to ensure that our Party is not hijacked or annexed to the ruling party”.
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