Politics
Dancing Senator, Ademola Adeleke declared as authentic Osun PDP candidate
A Federal High Court in Osogbo has affirmed the authenticity of Senator Ademola Adeleke as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the forth coming July 16 governorship election in Osun State.
Justice Nathaniel Emmanuel made the declaration on Wednesday while delivering a ruling in a suit filed by Prince Dotun Babayemi, a factional candidate of the PDP.
Adeleke had been declared the winner of the governorship primary election of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State, held at the Osogbo City Stadium.
Similarly, Prince Dotun Babayemi also emerged as the winner of a parallel exercise, held at the WOCDIF Centre, also in the state capital on March 9.
Bayelsa State Deputy Governor, Senator Lawrence Ewurujakpo, who presided over the party’s National Congress Committee, announced Adeleke winner with 1,887 votes.
While Senator Ewurujakpo was quick to denounce any other poll held outside the state capital stadium saying, “Any other primary held outside this place is invalid and will not be recognised. The crown is here, the palace is here and the authority is here. Any exercise not done here cannot be recognized.”
Babayemi went to court to be recognised as the authentic candidate of the Party following a parallel primaries.
Urging his supporters to remain fearless over the Independent National Electoral Commission’s recognition of Senator Ademola Adeleke as the party’s flagbearer. Babayemi in a statement titled INEC list in defiance of the electoral body’s recognition of his rival said, “There is nothing final about the list and I’m sure that somebody somewhere knows that. It’s only the uninformed that can think it’s the end of the process because it’s on INEC’s timetable; the list published is just the submission by various parties.”
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