The former Chief Whip of the Senate, and chieftain of National Democratic Congress (NDC) Sir. Rowland Owie on Tuesday expressed anger and dismay over the name of the party’s candidate for Edo South senatorial district describing it as a fraud.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) portal had the picture of Sunny Aguebor as the senatorial candidate while it had the name Epelle-Asemota Bridgitte Osayuki as the candidate.

Reacting to the development, Owie said Aguebor emerged as the candidate of the party in a primary election monitored by the INEC and alleged that a national officer of the party may be responsible for the misplacement.

According to him, “The truth is, fraud cannot stand. The duly nominated candidate for Edo South NDC is Sunny Aguebor.

“His primary election was monitored by the INEC, we have the CTC of his nomination from INEC.

“The party uploaded the information to INEC. What they were trying to do was to put that lady’s name but they couldn’t remove Aguebor’s picture.

“Whoever did it is a criminal, it is because we want peace in the party otherwise such a person should have been arrested. It is a criminal act.

“The NDC is a corrective party, we can’t be part of fraud.

“We have written to the INEC to make the necessary corrections. The Major culprit in this matter is the South-South Vice Chairman of the party and we can get him arrested for forgery.”

When contacted, the state c to to tohairman of the party, David Olukoga said the party was still working with the INEC and that what is in circulation in the social media is not the true situation.

He said “Those are social media issues, when we are ready, we will publish our lists, we are not done with INEC, when we are done, they will give us our list and we will publish them.”

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