The Independent Electoral Commission (INEC) yesterday released the list of Anambra State candidates for the February 2015 National Assembly polls, with Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates ommited.

Political parties whose National Assembly candidates were pasted at the entrance gate of the state headquarters of INEC, Awka, include the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), All Progressives Congress (APC), National Congress Party (NCP), United Progressives Party (UPP), Citizens Popular Party (CPP), Advanced Congress of Democrats (ACD), Peoples Democratic Congress (PDC), Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), etc.

While the member representing Ogbaru Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives and deputy chairman of the House Committee on Media and Public Affairs, Hon. Victor Afam Ogene, made the INEC list as the APC candidate for the Ogbaru federal constituency, APGA National Chairman, Sir Victor Umeh, and Chief Dubem Obaze, made the INEC list as candidates of APGA for Anambra Central Senatorial district and Anambra North senatorial district respectively. Sir Peter Okala is listed as the NCP candidate for Anambra South senatorial district.

Sir Okala warned INEC not to allow PDP go into the election with multiple candidates for the various constituencies as the party did in past elections in the state.

He advised INEC to give PDP one month within which it would have resolved all issues concerning its candidates in the respective constituencies saying that the commission should rather blacklist the party from contesting the election in the state if it fails to field single candidates for the election.

Also, the leader of PPA in the state, Chief Godwin Ezeemo, urged the electoral umpire to stop any move by the PDP to cheat other political parties in the election by fielding multiple candidates.

He insisted that the commission should ban the party from participating in the election if it fielded multiple candidates.

It would be recalled that Chief Umeh, the APGA National Chairman, had earlier said that his party would use every arsenal within their power to stop PDP from truncating the rules of political contest adding that their style of fielding more than one can candidate has come to an end.

•Photo shows INEC Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega.

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