By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: The Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has denied issuing any access code to the Nafiu Gombe faction of the African Democratic Congress ADC, insisting that the portal code for the party’s candidate nominations was granted exclusively to the Sen. David Mark-led leadership.
National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee at INEC, Mallam Mohammed Kudu Haruna, told Vanguard on Tuesday amid escalating confusion within the ADC over which faction is authorised to upload candidates for the 2027 General Elections.
He said the commission’s records were unambiguous on the matter, noting that the Mark faction had already been cleared and had acted on that clearance well before a Monday appellate court judgment nullified the group’s state congresses.
“We never issued any access code to the Nafiu Gombe faction. Before the Court of Appeal judgement we had already issued the code to the Sen. Mark faction and they had submitted over 400 names and particulars of their candidates for the national level elections, including the president and his running mate,” Haruna told Vanguard.
