SEBASTINE EBHUOMHAN January 23, 2013 No Comments »
•Edo PDP sacks spokesman

Edo State Governorship Election Petitions Tribunal will today deliver judgement on the petition filed by Charles Airhiavbere challenging the re-election of Governor Admas Oshiomhole.

According to lawyers, the judgement on the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, candidate, is merely academic based on the ruling of the Supreme Court on January 11, which upheld Oshiomhole’s victory earlier decided by the dissolved tribunal.

Meanwhile, the state PDP yesterday sacked its Director of Publicity, Mr. Okharedia Ehimekpen.

Apparently piqued by the endless unguarded statements made on behalf of the party by Ehimekpen, who last week called on electorate and aspirants to boycott the forthcoming local government polls in the state because Governor Adams Aliyu Oshiomhole had allegedly concluded plans to rig the elections, the PDP leadership relieved the spokesman of his duties.

The sack was announced after a meeting of the party leaders held at the home of the state PDP Chairman, Chief Dan Osi Orbih. Ehimekpen, had alleged in a widely circulated statement last weekend that he was in receipt of a privileged information that Oshiomhole and the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, had already written the results of the council elections of April 20, 2013.

He also called for the boycott of the elections by the other political parties along with the PDP.

In a statement signed by the state Secretary, Hon. Felix Utubor, the PDP announced Ehimekpen’s sack owing to the “re-organisation currently going on at the state secretariat of the party.”

http://nationalmirroronline.net/new/poll-tribunal-delivers-judgement-on-airhiavberes-petition-today/