The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Wednesday said it will replace Jimoh Ibrahim, who belongs to the Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with Eyitayo Jegede of the Ahmed Makarfi's faction of the party in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in Ondo state.
Recall that INEC had earlier replaced Jegede’s name with Ibrahim following the ruling of Justice Okon Abag of an Abuja Federal High Court on the 14th of October.
The Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of the commission, Rotimi Oyekannmi, said the electoral umpire will obey the ruling of the Appeal court which set aside the Justice Okon Abang’s ruling which ordered the initial replacement of Jegede’s name with Ibrahim, Punch reports.
According to Oyekanmi, the ruling of the Appeal court should be served on the Commission before Friday.
In his words, “Yes, the judgment as we followed, it shows that we must replace the name of Ibrahim with that of Jegede.
“We will obey the judgment because this is an order coming from a superior court. We will abide by that decision.
“However, we will expect that the judgment be served on us before Friday to enable us comply. When we are served, we will comply immediately.
“But we are not going to shift the date of the election. We have passed that stage. The election is going to hold on Saturday, November 24 as scheduled.” Oyekanmi added.
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