Ahmad Lawan, President of the Senate of Nigeria, was conspicuously missing after the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, published the final list of candidates for the 2023 Senatorial and House of Representatives elections on Tuesday.
The electoral body maintained that it failed to publish the name of any All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate in the section for Yobe North Senatorial aspirants due to the controversy that trailed the senatorial ticket after the APC submitted Lawan’s name to INEC instead of Bashir Machina who won the primary election monitored by the commission.
Meanwhile, the names of former minister of Niger Delta affairs, Godswill Akpabio and Ebonyi State Governor, Dave Umahi who had similar issues were published.
The electoral umpire, however, indicated that it published Akpabio and Umahi’s names in compliance with the different court orders directing it to recognize them as the respective APC senatorial candidates for Akwa Ibom North West and Ebonyi South.
