Seyi Makinde
A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, has said that the party’s governorship primary that produced former Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, in Ibadan on Monday, was against the party’s guidelines and that it was an attempt to circumvent a court ruling. Makinde also warned that the party risked not producing candidates for the 2015 elections if the leaders refused to do what is right.
A Federal High Court in Abuja last Friday gave a ruling which said only delegates presented by three of the five members of the Aliyu Idi-Hong ad hoc ward congress panel should be used by the party for its primary elections in Oyo State.
Reacting to the primary on Tuesday in Ibadan, Makinde, who stayed away from the exercise, said the primary was a breach of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended and the party’s electoral guidelines, stressing that his non-participation was because he could not be part of lawlessness.
He said, “I did not participate in the election simply because there is a court judgement which was unequivocal on who and who should be the participants in the PDP primary. PDP electoral guideline said, ‘For the purposes of nominating the party’s candidates, the party shall elect three ad-hoc ward delegates’. The court had already told us who the delegates are but if the leadership of the party decided to circumvent the court judgement by using statutory delegates only for the primary election, it is a breach of PDP electoral guidelines and consequently, it is a breach of Electoral Act 2010 as amended.
A Federal High Court in Abuja last Friday gave a ruling which said only delegates presented by three of the five members of the Aliyu Idi-Hong ad hoc ward congress panel should be used by the party for its primary elections in Oyo State.
Reacting to the primary on Tuesday in Ibadan, Makinde, who stayed away from the exercise, said the primary was a breach of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended and the party’s electoral guidelines, stressing that his non-participation was because he could not be part of lawlessness.
He said, “I did not participate in the election simply because there is a court judgement which was unequivocal on who and who should be the participants in the PDP primary. PDP electoral guideline said, ‘For the purposes of nominating the party’s candidates, the party shall elect three ad-hoc ward delegates’. The court had already told us who the delegates are but if the leadership of the party decided to circumvent the court judgement by using statutory delegates only for the primary election, it is a breach of PDP electoral guidelines and consequently, it is a breach of Electoral Act 2010 as amended.
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