INEC lists Michael Enyong as Akwa Ibom PDP guber candidate

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has listed Michael Enyong as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Akwa Ibom.

This follows the Abuja federal high court’s sack of Umo Eno as the governorship candidate and subsequent order mandating the PDP to submit Enyong’s name to INEC.

On October 4, 2022, INEC published the final list of candidates for governorship and state house of assembly elections.

At the time, the commission had listed Eno as the governorship candidate.

In a statement on its website, INEC said after the publication of the list, it was served orders of court in respect of the nomination of candidates and some political parties also forwarded complaints seeking correction of errors made in the details of their candidates.

“Consequent upon the above, the lists of candidates in respect of the attached Senatorial Districts and Federal Constituencies, Governorship and State House of Assembly elections are amended and published as Amendment No. 4 pursuant to the Orders of Court served on the Commission as at 15 February, 2023, Deaths and requests for correction of candidates’ details by political parties,” INEC said.

The commission, in the new amendment, therefore listed Enyong as the Akwa Ibom PDP governorship candidate.

The PDP, despite the court judgement, insisted that Eno remains its governorship candidate.