The National Federa­tion Party will refile its list of candidate nominations. This was confirmed by Supervisor of Elections, Mohammed Saneem, who did not elaborate why this was needed. Mr Saneem referred fur­ther questions on this to the Party.

When contacted yesterday, Party leader Biman Prasad said: “Get your facts right.”

He did not provide any other details as to why they would need to refile. It is however understood that the nominations which had been taken for filing by party general sec­retary Seni Nabou, youth wing Apenisa Vatunivei­vuke and communications officer Kamal Iyer, were in­complete.

NFP announced its final batch of candidates on No­vember 4 which included the founder of FRIEND and former chief executive officer, Sashi Kiran, and former FijiFirst member of Parliament, Balminder Singh.

Other prominent people included the former presi­dent of Fiji Law Society, Dorsami Naidu, and for­mer Parliament staff, Il­iesa Raiduduva, who was alleged to have made cop­ies of the video between the Prime Minister, Voreqe Bainimarama and the par­ty president, Pio Tikodu­adua.

Story by: josefa.babitu@fijisun.com.fj