Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State on Friday declared that
the local government election billed to hold on Saturday 12th
May will hold in all the 33 local government areas, 35 local
council development areas and over 600 wards in the state.
This is despite a Federal High Court injunction which
ordered for suspension of the election.
DAILY POST gathered that some aggrieved APC members
from Eruwa in Ibarapa East Local Government Area had
prayed the court for an ijunction restraining the defendants,
their servants, agents or privies from using, relying on or
employing the use of any electoral areas or wards and
polling stations for the purpose of any elections in Oyo State,
including local government elections, other than the
electoral areas or wards and polling stations created by the
INEC, pending the determination of the substantive action.
But, Ajimobi while addressing members of the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) in the state at the APC state
Secretariat, Oke-Ado, Ibadan ahead of the forthcoming LG
election and ward congresses said the court had not
stopped the election except in some newly created wards.
Ajimobi while reacting to the Wednesday’s ruling by Justice
Joyce Abdulmalik of Federal High Court 2 which granted an
interlocutory injunction restraining OYSIEC from conducting
election into the new wards created by the commission in
Ibarapa East, said that the ruling did not constrain the
conduct of the LG election in the state but only in the
disputed wards.
He said he was leaning on constitutional provisions that the
courts had no power over the election.
He, however, disclosed that efforts at reaching compromise
with the aggrieved parties showed that the election will hold
even in the disputed wards.
Ajimobi said, “There is this speculation across the state that
the council poll will not hold as a result of the court
judgment.
“We are telling the court that it is in the constitution that no
court has power over the election. We are telling you that in
the wards mentioned and those that were not mentioned, we
are going to conduct election there.
“We are in touch with the aggrieved members of the party
that had gone to court.
“I want to assure you that the election will hold.”




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Ajimobi should be the one the Apc in oyo should condemned and not GSM government.