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Pedro Obaseki, the campaign director of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, says it is not necessary to appeal…

Pedro Obaseki, the campaign director of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, says it is not necessary to appeal the judgement which nullified the primary election that produced Ighodalo as the party’s standard bearer.

Justice Inyang Ekwo of the Federal High Court in Abuja had voided the PDP governorship primary election in Edo State.
The ruling said that the election conducted on February 22, 2024, was voided on the ground that 378 delegates who were supposed to vote at the primary election were unlawfully excluded by PDP.
However, the Edo State PDP Chairman, Tony Azeignemi, had in a statement on Thursday said Ighodalo remained the party’s candidate for the September 21 governorship election.
“Let it be on record that the candidature of Dr Asue Ighodalo as the flag bearer of the party for the 2024 elections remains intact and that the judgement of the Federal High court in Abuja did not in any way affect the party,” he had said.

During an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday, Obaseki said that it was not necessary to appeal the judgement because it was absolutely of no consequence.

He said, “I, Pedro Obaseki, wonder if it’s necessary to appeal the judgement because it is absolutely of no consequence. What was displayed there by the pronouncement made by Justice Inyang Ekwo borders on something close to judicial rascality.
In this same case, in law we call it Res Judicata, filed by someone who might have been a participant in the process. I am talking about Hadiza Umaru, who has collected forms to contest and filed the case on the same list of delegates and filed it at the court of Justice Inyang Ekwo
Pedro Obaseki, the campaign director of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship candidate in Edo State, Asue Ighodalo, says it is not necessary to appeal…

God bless you Don Pedro!

Nobody should take "courts" seriously in Tinubu's Nigeria, this should be emphasized repeatedly.

Tinubu said he’ll give Edo back to APC and just recently Maafool Yak!!ooobooo said the electoral machines are faulty due to flood in edo state and na Lagos flood Dey oooo. Ok oh.

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This Pedro is definitely working for APC,I hope PDP will be wise enough to appeal this judgement.

whnowz:
God bless you Don Pedro!

Nobody should take "courts" seriously in Tinubu's Nigeria, this should be emphasized repeatedly.

Election never start incompetent Obaseki and his godson have been defeated. We wanted to disgrace him with our voters on the election day.

LandMann:
Perhaps the Pedro is a mole working for APC giving this kind of stupid advice.

If the PDP candidate is smart then he needs to appeal the judgement if he believes the judgement is wrong. Otherwise, in future, after the election, if PDP is declared winner, any opposition party can site this judgement as ground to seek disqualification of the PDP candidate.

Nigerian politics is now like chess... only that Nigeria's version of the chess is played by criminals trying to outmanoeuvre each other

You might be right if you take into consideration the kind of judicial rascality this country experiences.

But the truth is that you cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stand.
That judgement is standing on nothing. That judgement is of no consequence.

There have been judgements by the higher court affirming the fact that the courts have no business with how a party conducts its primary or nominates candidates for an election

Plateau state post election issues will be a child's play,compare to this case.