A Twitter user claimed hours before the election that Labour Party candidate for Surelere I constituency, Olumide Oworu, is missing on the final list of governorship and House of Assembly candidates.
The tweet reads: “This guy is not even a candidate of LP in the forthcoming Gov & HoA elections oooooo because his name is not even on INEC list. Wonders shall never end.Who started the narrative?,”
Verification
CDD Election War Room obtained the final list of gubernatorial and house of assembly candidates as released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), and found out that his name is indeed missing.
The name of the the candidate for Labour Party as published on the INEC list is Adebayo Bode aged 47.
Refering to Labour Party, Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, said at a press briefing that the Labour Party had served “70 court processes… on nomination of candidates”.
Yakubu said INEC will always obey court rulings, including the ones mandating it to accept candidates of the Labour Party in some states, including Lagos, after its final list had been published.
In February 2023, long after the final list had been published, a court asked INEC to accept nominations from 24 states, including Lagos. It is however if Oworu is one of such candidates.
Verdict: It is true that Oworu’s name is missing, it is however possible, that he is the party’s candidate in the Surulere I election, as a result of a court order in February, after INEC’s final list of candidates was published.
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