The African Action Congress has said members of the party will not be participating in the Edo State governorship election in protest of the exclusion of the party’s candidate from the ballot.However, while releasing the list of parties approved to contest the election, INEC omitted AAC from the log without any concrete explanation.
The statement reads, “In protest of INEC's unlawful exclusion of the party and it's candidate's name from the ballot, the Edo State chapter of the African Action Congress has resolved in solidarity to sit at home and boycott the election. “However, this is not the case of African Action Congress and Hon. Edith Isokpan when INEC, after the party's primaries, refused enlisting the party from the Edo election. A situation that has been challenged in the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja.
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