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, available information shows.
Details released by the Independent National Electoral
Commission (INEC) 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.
Among the Senate election 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.
