Senator Godswill Akpabio has scaled through the grip of INEC as a federal high court sitting in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish his name as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Akwa Ibom north-west senatorial district in 2023.
Until now, INEC had excluded Senator
Godswill Akpabio, a former minister of Niger Delta affairs, from it's list of candidates for 2023 election.
The former minister was in the race for the party’s presidential ticket, but dropped his bid for another candidate.
A rerun primary election conducted on June 8 produced Akpabio as the winner of the exercise.
The court has now given it's verdict.
“I hereby declared that the defendant (INEC) publish the name of the 2nd plaintiff (Akpabio as the authentic candidate,” the judge ordered.
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