L-R: SDP Deputy National Chairman (South), Senator Ugochukwu Uba; National Chairman, Prof. Sadiq Gombe and a member of the Arewa Students Union delegation, Humaira Abubakar at the award presentation ceremony in Abuja on Monday. Credit: Adebayo Folorunsho-Francis
The Social Democratic Party on Monday disclosed that it has commenced the upload of details of its 1,015 candidates for State Houses of Assembly elections to the Independent National Electoral Commission’s Candidate Nomination Portal, following the completion of submissions for its presidential, governorship and National Assembly candidates.
The development comes barely 24 hours after the ruling All Progressives Congress announced it had uploaded the particulars of its 27 governorship candidates and their running mates, as well as more than 60 per cent of its State Assembly candidates, ahead of the August 8 deadline set by the electoral umpire.
Speaking with our correspondent on the sidelines of an award presentation by the Arewa Students Union at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, SDP National Chairman, Prof. Sadiq Gombe, expressed confidence that the party would meet the submission deadline.
He said, “We have finished uploading our candidates for the presidential, National Assembly, and governorship elections. We are now on the State Assembly. I am aware we still have a deadline or time limit up to the 8th of next month (August) for them to be concluded.
