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Parties “will find way round” ban on electoral alliance

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    At the meeting with Akhigbe, leaders of the AD and APP asked the government to put pressure on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to allow a formal electoral alliance between the two parties, news organisations reported. INEC announced last week that the alliance was “dead,” provoking the AD candidate, Falae, to say the two parties would “find a way round the obstacle”, PANA reported. Meanwhile the PDP, as expected, welcomed INEC’s rejection of the alliance, calling it the “right decision”, PANA added.

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