The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is far
from over, as a federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Independent
National Electoral Commission (INEC) not to recognise candidates who emerged
through primaries conducted by the caretaker committee led by Ahmed Makarfi.
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| Ahmed Markafi |
Delivering his ruling on Thursday, Okon Abang, a justice,
recognised the faction chaired by Ali Modu Sheriff, and restrained INEC from
accepting list of candidates for the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo
from any other faction apart from that of Sheriff.
Abang also directed the electoral body not to acknowledge
all the exercises carried out by the Makarfi faction, annulling primaries and
congresses.
The judge said the interlocutory orders are to subsist
pending the determination of the substantive suit marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/439/2016
filed by Benson Akingboye in Ondo and Johnson Agbonayinma, Edo.
Both men are asking the court to determine the real faction
of the PDP between the one led by Sherrif and that by Makarfi.
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