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No fewer than 1,537
candidates from 28 political parties are expected to contest elections for the
469 seats in the National Assembly in Saturday’s national elections.
Details released by
the Independent National Electoral Commission show that 747 are contesting
elections for the 109 seats in the Senate and 1,790 are contesting for the 360
seats in the House of Representatives.
Based on NAN filing, GRAPHITTI NEWS reports:
Among the Senatorial
candidates are 126 women and 621 men, while 254 women are among those
contesting to be members of the House of Representatives.
A breakdown of the
list shows that no female candidate is contesting election into the Senate in
Edo, Gombe, Jigawa, Kastina, Kebbi, Nasarawa, Ondo and Yobe states.
Abia, Bauchi,
Bayelsa, Benue, Borno, Ekiti, Kano, Kogi and Taraba states each have one female
candidate contesting.
Overall, in the
Senate election, Abia has 20, Adamawa, 22, Anambra, 43, Bauch, 15, Bayelsa, 10,
Benue, 10, Borno, 19, Cross-River, 12, and Akwa-Ibom, 12 candidates.
Delta has 35
candidates for the Senate, Ebonyi, 18, Ekiti, 13, Enugu, 27, Federal Capital
Territory, 11, Gombe, 12, Imo, 35, Jigawa, 10, Kaduna, 18, Kano, 21, Kastina,
13, Kebbi, 25, Kogi, 22, Kwara, 29, and Lagos, 20.
Edo, Nasarawa, Niger
and Rivers states have 16 candidates each for the Senate, Ogun. 29, Ondo, 20,
Osun, 30, Oyo ,18, Plateau, 12, Rivers, 16, Sokoto, 44, Taraba ,13, Yobe,
seven, and Zamfara, 38.
While no woman is
contesting the elections into the House of Representatives in Benue, there is
one each in Borno, Edo and Kastina states.
In the Presidential
Election, which also holds on Saturday, a woman is among the 14 candidates,
while four women are vice-presidential candidates.
(NAN)
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