THE Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, debunked speculations that it may have illegally bent backwards to backdate its documents in favour of candidates of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, for Yobe North and Akwa Ibom North-West.
The Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, who currently represents Yobe North and former Niger Delta Affairs Minister, Senator Godswill Akpabio, from Akwa Ibom North-West, had lost out of plans to return to the Senate next year as the electoral umpire said the duo did not participate in the respective senatorial primary elections.
Both men were presidential aspirants at the June 8 primary election of the APC, which held days after the party had already concluded its senatorial primary elections across the country.
However, an online report had yesterday, accused INEC of re-enlisting the two names in its files as bonafide candidates of the party.
But when contacted, Chief Press Secretary to the INEC Chairman, Mr Rotimi Oyekanmi, told Vanguard that the report was false.
Oyekanmi said: “The allegation is the figment of the imagination of those making it. The commission is not complaining of being under any pressure and we did not backdate any document. It’s all fake news. Nigerians should disregard the rumour.
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