POLITICS:Opposition Party Threatens To Sue INEC For Excluding Candidate From Ekiti Guber

A political party known as Providence Peoples Congress, PPC has threatened to take the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to court for the exclusion of its governorship candidate, Stephen Obasola, from the list of contestants in the July 14 governorship election in Ekiti state.

This threat was made public by the party’s National Chairman, Mr. Benson Adetona, while addressing journalists in Ado Ekiti.

Adetona, said that the party had on May 14 submitted forms CF01 and CF02 to the INEC office in Abuja in compliance with the commission’s guidelines; adding that the disqualified governorship aspirant emerged through a primary election supervised by INEC.

“The fact that the name of our candidate was listed by INEC as one of the 40 contenders that were acknowledged from the Ekiti office of INEC showed that our primary election was free, fair and credible, because our party operates like a family. There is no division.

“When we took forms CF01 and CF02 to the INEC Electoral Party Monitoring Department in Abuja, the officer detailed for the collection said they had to be attached with forms EC 4 and EC 5. But we told him the submission lapsed on May 15. He convinced us that we should not mind, that we can come on May 17 or 18 because of our peculiar situation.

“When we got there on May 17, the same staff member rejected our form. We were referred to heads of Legal Department and Electoral Party Monitoring but nothing was done.”