NNPP drags INEC, seeks Abdulsalami committee’s intervention over candidates’ nomination

Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd) By Henry Umoru Crisis rocking the leadership of the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, has taken a new twist as a faction of the party has petitioned the National Peace Committee to urgently intervene over what it termed the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s refusal to recognise its authentic candidates and release the nomination portal access code required for the upload of their particulars ahead of the forthcoming general election.

The NNPP specifically urged the committee to persuade INEC to examine its records relating to the party’s congresses and primaries, recognise the authentic candidates produced from those INEC-monitored exercises, immediately release the nomination portal access code and ensure that the party and its candidates are not unlawfully excluded from the forthcoming general election.

The party, which has already threatened legal action against INEC, has however, warned that the commission’s continued refusal to grant access to the nomination portal amounts to an unlawful exclusion of its candidates from the electoral process and poses a serious threat to Nigeria’s democracy.