Kamarudeen Ogundele, Ado Ekiti
Providence Peoples Congress has threatened to sue the Independent National Electoral Commission for excluding its governorship candidate, Stephen Obasola, from the list of those to contest the July 14 governorship election.
Obasola, according to the PPC, emerged through a primary election supervised by INEC at the party’s Secretariat located at Okesa area in Ado Ekiti.
The PPC’s National Chairman, Mr. Benson Adetona, told journalists on Monday in Ado Ekiti that the party had on May 14 submitted forms CF01 and CF02 to the INEC office in Abuja in compliance with the commission’s guidelines.
He wondered why the party would have to be punished unjustifiably, even when it submitted the name a day earlier than the May 15 stipulated by INEC.
He accused a certain officer in the office of the INEC’s National Chairman, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, of playing…
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