Despite Protests, APC Submits Final Candidates List To INEC, Fmr. Gov Suswan, Others From Ondo, Kogi, Dropped

For the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), processes for submission of candidates for national Assembly contest, next year is foreclosed, despite reactions from candidates whose names were dropped from the list.

The party confirmed that the comprehensive list containing names of contestants for national Assembly election has been submitted to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

However, protest from those dropped from the list and their supporters continued in state like Ondo.

In the submitted list, the APC National Working Committee (NWC) dropped former Benue Governor, Gabriel Suswam and five other senatorial candidates from the party’s final lists of candidates forwarded to the INEC.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that former Ondo State House of Representatives member, Gbenga Elegbeleye was also dropped from the list among others.

Also contained in the final lists of dropped and replaced candidates forwarded to INEC, are 19 House of Representatives candidates that emerged victorious in the party’s primary elections held in May 2026.

According to the document forwarded to INEC, the states affected were Abia, Kogi, Taraba, Benue,Ebonyi, Ondo, Kaduna, Niger and Kwara.

In the letter sent to INEC and signed by APC National Chairman, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, and its National Secretary, Ajibola Basiru, the party attributed the changes to the report of its Primary Election Appeal Committee.

The letter was titled: “Forwarding of approved list of senatorial and House of Representatives candidates :

The letter reads:“We write to formally forward the attached list of the party’s candidates for the affected senatorial and House of Representatives constituencies arising from the report of the Primary Election Appeal Committee.