“INEC Did Not Disqualify PDP Candidate in Rivers Poll Rerun” – REC

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Friday, April 1,stated that it did not disqualify, Tonye Alalibo, PDP candidate for Akuku-Toru Constituency 11, from participating in re-run election in Rivers.

The Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state, Aniedi Ikoiwak, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt that judgment of election tribunal and Court of Appeal excluded the party and its candidate from participating in the election.

Ikoiwak explained that two days to the re-run, the commission wrote to the state chapter of PDP informing it that the party and its candidate had been excluded in the election.

He said: “The decision was taken by the commission in compliance with the judgment of the tribunal and that of the Court of Appeal.”

The commissioner said insinuations that the commission deliberately disqualified the candidate was false and baseless.