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INEC excludes APC from Niger federal constituency re-run election
Three parties will field candidates for the February 6, 2021 election.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed February 6, 2021 for the rerun of the election for Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency of Niger State.
The spokesperson of INEC, Festus Okoye, in a statement on Thursday, said only three candidates would run in the poll. They are those of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
INEC said the re-run election followed the Court of Appeal affirmation of the election petition tribunal’s nullification of Kasimu Danjuma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as the winner of the seat from a March 4 bye-election.
INEC fixes new date for Magama/Rijau Constituency bye-election
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed the re-run election for Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency, Niger for February 6, 2021.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman, Information and Voter Education, Mr Festus Okoye, in a statement in Abuja, said the decision was taken at the commission’s meeting on Thursday.
Okoye said that the Commission met and deliberated on a number of issues including the Court of Appeal judgement on Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency election.
He recalled that the Commission conducted a by-election in Magama/Rijau Federal Constituency on March 14
and returned Kasimu Danjuma of the All Progressive Congress (APC) as duly elected.
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The lawmaker’s defection brings to four the number of lawmakers that have joined the APC on the floor of the house since Tuesday.
Onuigbo’s defection was announced by Femi Gbajabiamila, speaker of the house of representatives, at plenary on Thursday.
The lawmaker cited crisis and impunity in his local government chapter of the PDP as his reason for defection.
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“The past months have witnessed intense crisis bordering on tyranny, arising from lack of internal democracy and downright impunity in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP),” Onuigbo’s letter reads.
“This crisis has seriously distracted genuine leaders from effectively carrying out their primary responsibility of providing leadership to our people who, as it is, have been starved of progressive leadership.
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