Federal High Court, Abuja. stops Jimi Agbaje from parading himself as PDP Candidate for Lagos Gubernatorial election . Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) to maintain the status quo on the contentious gubernatorial
primaries held in Lagos over a week ago, in which Mr Jimi Agabaje
emerged the party’s candidate for the 2015 governorship poll. The court has, however, fixed December 23 for the INEC and PDP to appear
before it and, as such, forbade Agbaje, the acclaimed winner, to stop
parading himself as the party’s candidate until the suit before it was
heard.Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, a governorship aspirant on Lagos PDP platform, had pleaded with the court to compel the party not to accept the result of the primaries held on December 8, due to the alleged over-voting at the exercise.
A total of 806 accredited voters were announced at the commencement of voting, but 866 delegates later voted.
The former minister also asked the court not to recognise Agbaje because, according to him, he joined the party barely six months ago and, as such, was morally unfit to contest for governorship, since the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party had not given him a waiver.
Other issue in contention before the court was that the leader of the party in Lagos, Chief Olabode George, allegedly came with thugs to scare accredited voters loyal to Obanikoro away from the venue.
Obanikoro, in his prayer, is seeking for outright cancellation of the exercise and a rerun at a date to be fixed.
Endy Edeson
@mbong:
well, it's a big surprise to Obanikoro as he thinks he is the only
eligible and choosen one for Lagos PDP. lets see how the judgment will
turn out on Dec 23,
Enyinda Nathaniel Okey
long abd short of it is...PDP has lost Lagos already. they failed to unite when unity was most needed