The Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) has said any Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) member in Ogun State campaigning for
elective position without being on the candidates’
list released by the electoral umpire “is on his or
her own†as the body has nothing to do with
such. Mr. Festus Okoye, INEC National
Commissioner for Information, Media and Voter
Education, said this while featuring on Citizens’
Forum, a programme aired by the Rock City 101.9
FM, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Honourable Oladipupo
Adebutu, a member of the House of
Representatives and some of his supporters have
been campaigning for various offices despite not
making the list of candidates released by INEC.
Adebutu has been at loggerheads with Senator
Buruji Kashamu, PDP’s governorship candidate in
Ogun State, over the governorship ticket.
According to Okoye, only members of the PDP
whose names were on the list released by INEC
were the genuine candidates of the party, adding
that others were mere pretenders. Okoye said,
“Our position is that the INEC received judgments
of properly constituted courts of law and we have
given effect to the judgments that we have. The
judgments that we have asked the INEC to
recognize the list of candidates submitted by a
particular faction of the PDP in Ogun State. We
have recognized the candidates submitted by that
particular political party and we have published
the names of those candidates recognized by the
court. So, it is the names of those candidates
that have been published. Any other individual,
outside that particular list, who is campaigning
for any position whatsoever, is on his or her own.
The INEC has nothing to do with that. We have
obeyed the law. We have published the list of
candidates that we were asked to publish based
on court order and we have done what the law
requires us to do.â€
This we learnt has been causing some sleepless
nights for honorable Oladipupo Adebutu.
source:
dailytimes.ng/honourable-oladipupo-adebutus-albatross/
