The
Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission on Tuesday said it would
recognise only the list of candidates for the forthcoming local
government elections submitted by a faction of the Peoples Democratic
Party in the state believed to be loyal to former President Olusegun
Obasanjo.
OGSIEC’s position was,
however, in defiance of Wednesday last week’s ruling of a state High
Court in Ilaro, Yewa South Local Government, which ordered that only the
state Executive Committee of the Ogun PDP, led by Chief Bayo Dayo, had
the authority to nominate and submit the list of candidates for the July
21 council election in the state.
Chairman of OGSIEC
Screening Committee, Mr. Mutiu Agboke, who is also a commissioner of the
electoral body, said at a press conference in Abeokuta on Tuesday that
the commission sought clarification from the PDP national headquarters
on which of the factions should be accorded recognition for the purpose
of the July 21 council poll before reaching the decision.
Agboke said the commission
had therefore rejected the list of candidates forwarded to it by the
Dayo-led faction of the Ogun PDP.
PUNCH NEWSPAPER
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