PDP to sue INEC for excluding party’s Ekiti gov. candidate

The Taminu Turaki-led faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has declared that it would take legal action to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to recognise its governorship candidate for the forthcoming Ekiti State election.

 

The party, in a press statement, said it complied with due process by ensuring that INEC monitored its governorship primaries for candidates. After the exercise, the PDP claimed INEC “released the relevant nomination portal codes to our party, through which the official nomination forms were accessed.” It adds that INEC later “disingenuously blocked the code a few days before the submission date, causing us to resort to manual submission at their office (receipt of which was acknowledged).”

 

PDP says “INEC ought to have acted with caution and responsibility by including the name of Dr. Oluwole Oluyede, the duly nominated candidate” in the published list of candidates.

“Having failed to act appropriately, our party has immediately taken steps to approach the courts to compel INEC to do what it ought to have done in the first place,” the PDP said.

– By Adeola Atanda