{"id":12260,"date":"2022-06-20T21:46:03","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=12260"},"modified":"2022-06-20T21:46:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-20T21:46:39","slug":"breaking-inec-tells-tinubu-peter-obi-you-cant-change-running-mates-names-submitted-is-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsreservoir.com\/?p=12260","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING!!! INEC Tells Tinubu, Peter Obi: You Can\u2019t Change Running Mates,\u00a0 Names Submitted is Final,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">BREAKING!!! INEC Tells Tinubu, Peter Obi: You Can\u2019t Change Running Mates,\u00a0 Names Submitted is Final,<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, can no longer change their running mates. The electoral empire said the concept of \u201cplaceholder\u201d or dummy vice presidential candidate as done by political parties is out of place, stressing that it has no place in the constitution of Nigeria. Recall that after the completion of presidential primaries, INEC had set June 17 as the deadline for the nomination of vice-presidential candidates<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">However, as some political parties continued to search for the rightful VP candidate, and to beat the deadline set by INEC for submission of names, some candidates, including Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress and Peter Obi of Labour Party, submitted names of vice-presidential candidates whom they described as \u201cplaceholders or dummies.\u201d NPC Recruitment portal 2022 for Adhoc Staff, Requirements, Closing Date But, while speaking during a chat on ARISE TV on Monday, INEC Commissioner for Voters\u2019 Education and Information, Barrister Festus Okoye, ruled out the concept of \u201cplaceholder\u201d for vice-presidential candidates, saying it has no place in the constitution of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). He said \u201cplaceholder is a unique Nigerian invention\u201d for which the commission\u2019s law has no provision.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cAs far as we are concerned, there\u2019s no form submitted by the presidential candidate where they said \u2018we\u2019re submitting this person\u2019s name as a place or placeholder,\u201d he said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Source: Weetalknaija<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BREAKING!!! INEC Tells Tinubu, Peter Obi: You Can\u2019t Change Running Mates,\u00a0 Names Submitted is Final, The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), on Monday, said the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, can no longer change their running mates. 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