Politics
Actor Olumide Oworu breaks his silence after losing election to Desmond Elliot
Says the whole process was not for clout and blames INEC for not including his name on the ballot papers
Actor Olumide Oworu has broken his silence after he lost the Saturday, March 18, election for the Surulere Constituency of the Lagos state House of Assembly to his senior colleague, Desmond Elliott.
In a statement released, Olumide insisted his participation in the election was not for clout. With regards to his name not being on the ballot paper on the day of the election, Olumide stated that INEC failed to obey a court order issued on February 2 directing the commission to open its website for Labour party to submit the names of its candidates or accept the manual submission.He added that INEC failed to upload the names on the list sent by the Labour Party in October 2022.
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