A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to announce Godswill Akpabio as the senatorial candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Akwa Ibom North/West Senatorial candidate.
Senate President Ahmad Lawan, Godswill Akpabio, former minister of Niger Delta affairs, and Dave Umahi, governor of Ebonyi, had been listed by the APC as candidates for Yobe north, Akwa Ibom north-west, and Ebonyi south senatorial districts, respectively.
However, in the list published by INEC, Lawan, Umahi and Akpabio were said to have been excluded.
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