{"id":96330,"date":"2022-06-24T20:31:39","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=96330"},"modified":"2022-06-24T20:31:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-24T19:31:39","slug":"apc-has-no-candidate-for-yobe-north-senatorial-seat-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/apc-has-no-candidate-for-yobe-north-senatorial-seat-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"APC has no candidate for Yobe North senatorial seat \u2013 INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">Senate President Ahmed Lawan and Hon Bashir Machina may have lost out for the Yobe North senatorial seat in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>A credible source at the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) office in Damaturu tolike Pointblanknews.com the commission did not publish any candidate for APC.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we have is Mohammed Bomoi for Yobe South and Ibrahim Geidam for Yobe East. There is no name for the Yobe North for the APC,\u201d the source said.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Head of Voter Education and Publicity at the Damaturu office of INEC, Mrs Rifkatu Duku, confirmed the ruling party has no candidate for the seat.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n\u201d No credentials of APC candidates for Zone C have been submitted to the office from the headquarters. We have received credentials of candidates for the National Assembly and presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut we did not get that of Zone C, ie Yobe north for APC. We got that of Yobe south and Yobe eat which is the Ibrahim Bomoi and former Governor Gaidam,\u201d Mrs Duku said.<\/p>\n<p>The APC has submitted Lawan\u2019s name as candidate for the party.<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nBut Machina, who won the primary supervised by INEC, has insisted he is the authentic candidate for the election, vowing to stop at nothing to get his mandate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"adL\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Ahmed Lawan and Hon Bashir Machina may have lost out for the Yobe North senatorial seat in 2023. 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