Group Writes Electoral Body, INEC To Reject Senate President Lawan, Akpabio, As APC Senatorial Candidates

A non-partisan intellectual hub, Abuja School of Social and Political Thought has written to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to reject the names of candidates who did not win their party’s primary election but submitted by their party regardless. 
This was stated in a statement released on Saturday by the Director of the group, Dr. Sam Amadi, titled, ‘Abuja School Calls on INEC to Reject Fraudulent and False Submission of Candidates by the Parties’. 

The group urged the electoral commission to withhold the true principle of the newly enacted Electoral Act, particularly cases of the President of the Senate and the former Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, who contested the APC presidential primaries and lost but are making frantic efforts to regain Senate seats from the winners of the primaries.
The group also commended INEC for its oversight functions during the conduct of political parties primaries. 

The statement reads: “With the conclusion of the elective…