{"id":51046,"date":"2016-07-10T15:40:08","date_gmt":"2016-07-10T14:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=51046"},"modified":"2016-07-10T15:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T14:40:08","slug":"edo-2016-wont-accept-makarfi-sheriffs-candidates-inec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/exclusive\/edo-2016-wont-accept-makarfi-sheriffs-candidates-inec\/","title":{"rendered":"Edo 2016: Why we\u00a0 Won\u2019t Accept Makarfi, Sheriff\u2019s Candidates—-INEC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) said it would await the final outcome of court cases in deciding on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)\u2019s candidate for the governorship election in Edo.<\/p>\n

Nick Dazang, Deputy Director, Voter Education and Publicity, INEC, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Abuja.
\nThe two factions of PDP led by National Caretaker Committee Chairman, Ahmed Markafi and disputed National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff, conducted separate primaries to pick candidate.
\nThe Makarfi\u2019s group, supported by all organs of the party, including the Governors\u2019 Forum and the Board of Trustees, conducted its primary on June 20 in Benin and elected Osagie Ize-Iyamu as candidate.
\nOn June 29, in another primary also in Benin, but was not supervised by INEC as required by the Electoral Act, Sheriff\u2019s faction picked Matthew Iduoriyekwemwen as the party\u2019s candidate for the Sept. 10 election.
\nInsisting on final pronouncement of the court of the issue, mR. Dazang said, \u201cas at now we have not received the certified true copy of the July 4 judgment of a Federal high Court, Port Harcourt, on the matter.
\n\u201cWe are waiting for that judgment and other judgments so that we can study them.
\n\u201cThe commission, after studying the judgment and the advice from its lawyers, will then take a position, but we are still waiting for the last judgment which was the one on July 4.
\n\u201cIt will be like from next week by the time we receive them and when the commission sits, a position will be taken.
\n\u201cIt is when the commission has done that that it will then decide on any faction or candidate it is going to accept.\u2019\u2019
\nJustice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja had on June 30, affirmed Mr. Sheriff as the PDP National Chairman and ordered INEC to recognise any candidate presented by him.
\nBut, a Federal High Court in Port Harcourt on July 4 held that the May 21 national convention that removed Sheriff as chairman and constituted the National Caretaker Committee was duly constituted.
\nThe court also declared that the dissolution of the National Working Committee and the National Executive Committee by that convention was valid.
\nIn the judgment, Justice Abdullahi Liman, declared that the appointment of the caretaker committee to oversee the party\u2019s affairs was legal and in line with the provisions of PDP Constitution.
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