Garba Shehu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, says one other presidential nominee died after the list as published on December 30, 2017.

Shehu said this during an interview with journalists, adding that the process to replace the names of deceased persons in the list hade gone a long way.

Also, names of persons who have left the All Progressives Congress (APC) would be expunged from the list, he added.

“Yes, I can confirm to you that the process to replace the dead ones has started. We have listened to the concerns raised,” Shehu said.

“Even after the list was published, one nominee died. They need to take a second look at the entire list.

“There were also complaints about some persons who had left the party but made the list. We are looking at those ones too with a view to replacing them.”

After the original list was announced by Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, it was discovered that eight persons whose names made the shortlist were dead.

But Shehu explained that the list was compiled in 2015 but was not made public due to President Muhammadu Buhari’s frequent medical trips abroad.

He said there was nothing scandalous about the list, as nobody could have prevented anybody from dying between then and now.

““This list is a historical list. It dates back to 2015… If a list was compiled like over two years ago, obviously some people would have died. Nobody can stop that from happening,” he said

“Whoever is dead will be replaced. There is nothing extraordinary about it.”

Aside persons that had died, the list contained names of persons with questionable integrity who were appointed as Board Chairmen and members of several government agencies.

One of them is Herman Hembe, who represented Vandeikya/Konshisha federal constituency of Benue State, but was sacked by the Supreme Court and was replaced by Dorathy Mato.

Hembe was appointed the Board Chairman of the Michael Imoudo National Institute for Labour Studies (MINLS).