Fast-rising Nollywood actor Olumide Oworu has blamed the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for not including his name on the ballot papers for the State House of Assembly election.
The thespian whose name was excluded in the Saturday, March 18, election for the Surulere Constituency 1 of the Lagos State House of Assembly, which was won by actor, Desmond Elliott, also stated that his participation in the election exercise was not for clout.
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Olumide Oworu who lamented his plight in a statement posted on his official Instagram page said that INEC failed to obey a court order issued on February 2, directing the commission to open its website for the Labour party to submit the names of its candidates or accept the manual submission.
The actor’s statement reads thus in part; ‘’Regarding the authenticity of my candidacy and my name not appearing on the ballot, that is a situation that came about due to the failure of the INEC to comply with the subsisting judgment of the Federal High Court delivered on the 2nd of February 2023 in Suit No: FHC/ABJ/CS/2115/2022 wherein INEC was ordered to open her website to allow the labour party to submit the list of her candidates or accept the same manually immediately. INEC failed to upload the names on the list sent by the Labour Party in October 2022. I assure you that this endeavour was not one for clout but was borne out of a genuine desire for change.”
See his full statement below;
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