The Independent National Electoral Commission( INEC )said it did not release a fresh final list of Candidates for the 2023 General Elections on its website on Sunday,8 January,2022 contrary to reports making the rounds.
INEC National Commissioner and Chairman Information and Voter Education Committee, Mr Festus Okoye who made this known in a statement he issued on Monday said” there cannot be a final list of Candidates just 46 days to the General Election except for names published as substitutions for candidates nominated earlier in compliance with Court Order adding that some of the candidates that allegedly made the new” final” list are still in Court and the matter is therefore subjudice”
Okoye said that the final list of Candidates was released 150 days to the election, between September 20 and October 4,2022 and urged the public to discountenance the report.
” The Commission wishes to state categorically that no new publication of final list of Candidates was released as reported. The public should therefore discountenance the story”
