Senator, Others Scale INEC’s Hurdle

Senate Committee Chairman on Information, Sen. Ayogu Eze (PDP, Enugu North), and Mr Pat Asadu (PDP, Nsukka/Igboeze South Federal Constituency), have been listed by INEC for April Polls.

The list, published by the commission in Nsukka  Thursday, also named Mr Victor Amaoha of People for Democratic Change (PDC) and Brig.-Gen. JOJ Okolagu of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as co-contenders with Eze.

Mr Peter Okonkwo of Labour Party and Mr Kinsley Chukwuemeka, APGA, would slug it out with Asadu in Nsukka/Igboeze for the House of Reps.

Reps. Felix Amu (Nsukka West) and Fabian Onah (Nsukka East) of PDP lost tickets to Mrs Nkechi Omeje and Mr Chinedu Nwamba respectively for the polls.

Mr Evi Eric, the electoral officer in Nsukka, said the list was sent to him from INEC’s head office in Enugu.

A Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) chieftain, who pleaded anonymity, said with the court vacating its order on Gov. Sullivan Chime and INEC publishing PDP’s candidates for the polls, the party was poised to go into full campaigns.

“PDP has done very well in Enugu, so I am optimistic that it will record a landslide victory in the April general elections.”