The Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to postpone the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State.
The spokesman of the PDP Caretaker Committee, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, in a statement yesterday said the call for poll shift became necessary due to a pending suit regarding the candidature of the party at the Supreme Court.
Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim and Eyitayo Jegede are locked in a legal tussle with both of them claiming to be the PDP candidate for the election, having emerged from the party’s primary elections conducted by the Makarfi and Sheriff-led factions at different times.
The party also explained that the call is against the backdrop of the fact that INEC postponed the Edo State governorship election and recently postponed the Rivers Re-run elections without “any cogent or visible reason.”
It alleged that the adjournment of the suit to determine the authentic candidate of the PDP for the Ondo election by the Court of Appeal pending the determination of the suit before the Supreme Court was part of a plan to use the judicial process, security agencies and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to rig the election in favour of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
But the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led factional of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has kicked against call for the postponement.
In a statement in Abuja, the Deputy National Chairman for the Sheriff faction, Dr Cairo Ojougboh, said on behalf of his boss, that such a call by the Caretaker Committee was “malicious, offensive and irresponsible.”
Sheriff urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (NEC), the judiciary and members of the public to disregard the call.
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