Rivers State Independent Electoral Commission, RSIEC, has acknowledged receipt of a list of candidates from the Emeka Beke-led faction of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state.

RSIEC’s Commissioner for Administration and Legal Services, Professor Chidi Haliday, who confirmed the development, said the commission only received the list for record purposes and not for recognition in the forthcoming council elections scheduled for August 30.

Professor Haliday, while stressing that electoral umpires were not expected to dabble into political party crises, explained that the commission had monitored the APC primaries and received the list of successful candidates without considering any factional disputes.

He added, “APC had their primaries, picked up their expression of interest and with what they brought to us, we conducted the primaries.

“So anything that we are getting after the primaries that they had, and which other ones they must have submitted, we just take it for record purposes because it’s not within the timeline that we have provided.

“And to don’t start talking about faction. It’s not the responsibility of the commission to resolve factional disputes.”