The Peoples Democratic Party candidate for the Ondo Stare governorship election, Eyitayo Jegede, has appealed to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to postpone Saturday’s election for at least 30 days.

He said this would allow the party to submit a list of its agents in good time before the election as provided for in the Electoral Act 2010.

The Act stipulates that each party should make their party agents available to the commission, 14 days before the day of election.

The Biyi Poroye faction of the PDP had submitted a list of party agents to the commission before the expiration of the deadline for Jimoh Ibrahim, who was removed by Wednesday’s Appeal Court judgment.

Mr. Jegede, who led a protest to the INEC state headquarters at Alagbaka, in Akure on Thursday, told the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Olusegun Agbaje, that the postponement was necessary in order not to be in breach of the Electoral Act.

He also submitted a letter he addressed to the Chairman of the Commission, Mahmood Yahkoob, demanding the postponement of the election.

“It follows from the foregoing that any list of agents purportedly forwarded by one Poroye and his fellow pretenders who had been illegally parading themselves as the state executive members of the PDP, Ondo State cannot be regarded as authentic,” the letter read in part.

“As it is, the peoples democratic party has not forwarded the list of its agents to the commission.
“Whichever way one may look at the situation on ground, the governorship election of Ondo state slated for 26th November, if conducted, will undoubtedly be in breach of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.

“It is in light of the foregoing that I request you to differ the governorship election for Ondo State for at least 30 days so as not to conduct the election in flagrant violation of the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.”

But Mr. Agbaje said INEC had gone past the issue of postponement, given that it had distributed sensitive materials to all the local governments already for the elections.

He insisted that the commission was prepared for the election come Saturday.

“We can no longer talk about postponement of the election right now,” he said. “The matter is an internal dispute within the PDP and so we cannot be talking about postponement.

“If we postpone the election, we will be losing billions of naira knowing that we have already deployed sensitive and non-sensitive materials to all the local government areas of the state.”

He said the list of party agents would be received from the Mr. Jegede and the former one would be discarded.
The materials which were supplied directly from the vault of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, in Akure include ballot papers, result sheets and other forms that would be used to collate the results.

Mr. Agbaje said adequate security had been provided to escort the materials to the respective local government areas.


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the election will be postponed. there is no two ways about that

3 days after the wrongs of Okon Abang was rectified they expect to hold a credible election.
Which sane society does that?
In any sane society the election would have been postponed, Nigeria is not a sane society.

Hahaha sore loosers ,sheriff destroyed ur guys,the election will hold.election campaign ends today.inec should wait for u until u finish fucking ur wife pussy?

For 100 days neither APC or PDP will win


We will speak with a powerful voice

Olushola oke sure pass

Jegede should make use of the agents list that was submitted by the Poroye faction. PDP is still PDP under the law, the only area of controversy is how to determine the authentic candidate of the party and that has already been resolved. The election cannot be postponed because PDP refused to put its house in order. Materials, security and other logistics have already been deployed so, election must hold on Saturday November 26th as scheduled.

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seunmsg:
They should make use of the agents list that was submitted by the Poroye faction. PDP is still PDP under the law, the only area of controversy is who really is the authentic candidate of the party and that has already been resolved. The election cannot be postponed because of the internal crisis in just one party. Materials, security and other logistics have already been deployed so, election must hold on Saturday November 26th.

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Edo election was canceled because of Boko Haram even though Edo state is in the SS.
Buhari's INEC cancels election when it suits APC.
Gone are the days of credible elections.

melvinjames:
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Edo election was canceled because of Boko Haram even though Edo state is in the SS.
Buhari's INEC cancels election when it suits APC.
Gone are the days of credible elections.

Don't u understand, sensitive and non sensitive materials have been distributed already

kcmichael:



Don't u understand, sensitive and non sensitive materials have been distributed already

You mean the rigging process is underway?

melvinjames:


You mean the rigging process is underway?

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PDP is the master rigger, APC is just following,so chill while Karma does her work

God bless u Mr REC for dat reply, let dem just conduct the election and let somebody rest. I no fit shout jor.

That one out of the several parties contesting in an election has been unable to put its house in order, is this a reasonable reason to cancel an election?

Instead of concentrate on strategy to get to the voters within remaining hours is asking for impossible. Party will submit names of agents not candidate and the party has been involved in all process.

so election should hold on boxing day Abi?