4th July, 2024
By Jethro Ibileke
The 21 September governorship election Campaign Organization of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has described the Federal High Court, Abuja’s judgement which nullified the party’s primary election as strange.
The Director-General of the party’s campaign council, Matthew Iduoriyekemwen, stated this while reacting to the judgement.
He described the judgment as “a strange development and contrary to a long line of Appellate Courts’ decision on the subject.”
He added that the court’s judgment on the party’s delegate election did not invalidate the outcome of the party’s primary election which produced the party’s flagbearer, Dr. Asue Ighodalo and his running mate, Osarodion Ogie Esq.
According to him, “We are confident that this new decision will not survive the test of appeal and all necessary steps in that regard are already being actively pursued.
“Furthermore, it must be noted that the claim in question and the judgment which arose therefrom did not in any shape or form invalidate or even challenge the outcome of the party primaries which produced the candidate of the PDP for the forthcoming elections.
“The net result therefore is that contrary to the stories making the rounds, spread by mischief makers, the PDP primaries held on February 22, 2024, were not set aside and neither was any order given affecting the outcome of same.
“Members and supporters of the PDP as well as the good people of Edo State are enjoined to remain calm and ignore the antics of mischief makers as the falsity of their assertion will be made clear in the fullness of time and upon release of the actual judgment for public consumption.”
