Another court stops INEC from removing Jegede's name as candidate of PDP for Ondo governorship election.

Jegede 

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has been restrained  by the  Akure  High Court from substituting or replacing  the name of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Eyitayo Jegede, already included  on the electoral agency’s list of candidates for November 26 governorship election in Ondo State.

This followed the emergence of two factional candidates in the party.

Justice Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja,  had in a controversial ruling directed INEC to replace Jegede with Jimoh Ibrahim, following  a contempt case instituted against the Jegede faction and INEC over a June 2016 ruling that the PDP factional executive in the Southwest should nominate candidate for the 2019 general election.

The Akure High Court ruling  followed a suit filed by the Ondo State  PDP Chairman , Clement Faboyede.

In a judgment delivered on Wednesday,  Justice W R Olamide of the Akure High Court while restraining INEC from replacing Jegede said it would be out of order for INEC to replace or substitute  his  name.

Justice Olamide said any contrary action will contravene  the principles  of equity, justice  and fairness.

In another development, the Akure High Court granted  Bamiduro Dada an order restraining INEC and its agents from  recognising  Jimoh Ibrahim  as PDP candidate , even as  another injunction was granted  the plaintiff restraining Jimoh Ibrahim from parading himself  as the PDP candidate.

Dada, who contested the  primary  election  organised by the PDP faction in Ibadan with Ibrahim, based his prayer  on the submission that the  shadow  election held in Ibadan was a fraud.

In his ruling, Justice Olasehinde Kumuyi ruled  that Biyi Poroye  and others  cannot parade themselves  as PDP state executives and therefore can not  take any action in respect of the party.