The Peoples Democratic Party in Ogun State has petitioned the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission and Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to investigate a governorship aspirant of the party, Jimi Lawal, for allegedly forging the delegates’ list.

The PDP said the list was presented to the Independent National Electoral Commission for the governorship primary election held in the state.

Recall that Lawal and his supporters had rejected a delegates’ list purportedly brought from national secretariat of the party during the May 25 governorship primary of the party which produced Ladi Adebutu as the governorship candidate of the party.

Lawal, who presented another delegates’ list as the authentic list alleged that the names of the persons on the list were not democratically elected at the ward, local government and state congresses.

The party, however, claimed it discovered that Lawal had forged the delegates’ list in collusion with top officials of INEC to “deceive, manipulate and misrepresent facts.”

The party, in separate petitions by its lawyer, Oladimeji Balogun, dated Thursday, October 27, and addressed to the chairmen of the EFCC and ICPC, demanded the investigation of Lawal and some officials of INEC in the state for allegedly suppressing the authentic delegates’ list of the party.

The party in another petition, also dated Thursday October 27 and addressed to the national chairman of INEC, Mahmood Yakubu, accused the Head of Department and Party Monitoring of the state INEC and Director of Election and Party Monitoring department at INEC headquarters in Abuja of “deliberate and criminal suppression of the PDP authentic delegates’ list with a view to fraudulently substituting the original documents with an unlawful delegate result purportedly submitted by Lawal.”
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It therefore called for the investigation of the INEC officials involved in the alleged fraud.

The petition read in part, “The suppression of those documents was deliberately effected to give undue advantage to a particular aspirant who, relying on the purported fraudulent delegates’ list went ahead to institute legal proceedings against the party.”

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The INEC I know under this leadership will never tolerate such fraudulent acts by its staff members. I am very sure that they will investigate and punish any of this fraudulent staff involved in this criminal suppression