OYO State Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant Elder Wole Oyelese Tuesday filed a suit at the Federal High Court to stop the primaries scheduled for today.
The other applicants are former PDP Deputy National Chairman, Yekini Adeojo, former Deputy to Governor Adebayo Alao- Akala, Hazeem Gbolarunmi, Senator Lekan Balogun and 33 others.
They are pleading with the court to restrain the PDP from presenting any candidate for the governorship election pending the determination of the substantive suit.
The hearing in the suit has been fixed for today.
Oyelese said the suit was to stop the governorship primaries scheduled to hold at the Obafemi Awolowo Stadium, adding that it was wrong for the party’s National Working Committee to have recognised the list of executive members submitted to it by the Akala faction.
He said the national headquarters ought to have harmonised the list rather than recognise a faction.
Alao-Akala said the primary election would go on. In a statement by his Special Adviser on Public Communications, Mr. Dotun Oyelade, the governor said: “Against the background of the injunction allegedly secured by Wole Oyelese at a Federal High Court, stopping the governorship primaries, Section 87,11 of the Electoral Act 2010 says ‘nothing in this section shall empower courts to stop holding of primaries or general elections under this Act, pending the determination of the suit”.
He accused Oyelese and others of being out to cause tension. He urged the 1,300 delegates to report at the venue of the governorship primaries and perform their civic responsibility.
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