{"id":24104,"date":"2014-03-10T22:21:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=24104"},"modified":"2014-03-10T22:21:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T21:21:15","slug":"ekiti-gov-pdp-disqualifies-olowoporoku-two-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ekiti-gov-pdp-disqualifies-olowoporoku-two-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Ekiti gov: PDP disqualifies Olowoporoku, two others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party Screening Committee on the 2014 Ekiti Governorship Election has disqualified three aspirants from taking part in the play\u2019s governorship primaries.Those disqualified by the committee, which is headed by Senator Victor Ndoma-Egba, are \u00a0Bosede Dada and Peter Obafemi.<\/p>\n<p>Olowoporoku was disqualified on the basis that he did not produce tax clearance and that there was no evidence of court judgment overturning on his previous expulsion from the party.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Dada was also accused of not having evidence of payment of membership dues , no West African School Certificate and no production of tax clearance certificate.<\/p>\n<p>In the case of Obafemi, he was said to be unable to produce his National Youth Service discharge certificate.<\/p>\n<p>With the disqualification of the three aspirants, the coast is now clear for the remaining 13 aspirants to take part in the March 15 governorship primaries of the party in the state.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peoples Democratic Party Screening Committee on the 2014 Ekiti Governorship Election has disqualified three aspirants from taking part in the play\u2019s governorship primaries.Those disqualified by the committee, which is&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24105,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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