The Nigerian Democratic Congress, NDC has urged the public to disregard a list on the social media depicting its candidates for some states in next year’s election. NDC particularly mentioned a social media list purportedly representing the party’s candidates in three states, Abia, Imo and Anambra as fake.
The party made the admonition on Thursday in a statement issued by the party’s National Secretary, Barrister Ikenna Alex-Morgan Enekweizu, saying those sharing the list on the social media are only bent on causing disaffection among the members of the party.
The party stressed that the list of candidates representing the party next year has already been sent to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC in line with the extant Electoral Act, saying the circulated list are from the party’s detractors whose aim is to cause division and create confusion in its ranks.
“The general public, especially members of the NDC in Imo, Abia, Anambra and other affected states, are hereby urged to disregard the lists of candidates widely circulating on social media as the authentic lists of our party’s candidates from the aforementioned states,” the statement read.
Adding that “Such lists in circulation are being peddled by mischief makers and those who do not wish the party well. However, the party is investigating the sources of such fabrications and leakages as they are desperate attempts to cause ill will and distractions within the party.”
The opposition party recently came under trenchant criticism from not a few Nigerians after it insisted that candidates contesting election under its platform next year must sign a Non- defection agreement.
The reason, the NDC said, is to ensure that those who wins election under its banner do not defect to other parties in the future, thereby weakening it.
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