Sen. Buruji Kashamu has urged the National Working Committee, NWC, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to respect the court judgment pronouncing him the party’s governorship candidate in Ogun.
Kashamu emerged from the congress conducted by the Dayo-led group while Adebutu emerged from the congress conducted by the Sikirulai Ogundele-led faction and backed by the NWC.
Mr Festus Okoye, INEC National Commissioner for Information, Media and Voter Education, had said on Wednesday in Abeokuta that the Commission published candidates in Kashamu’s camp in compliance with a subsisting court judgment pronouncing them as the right candidates.
Ologbodiyan, however, told newsmen in Abuja on Thursday that Adebutu remained the candidate of the party in spite of INEC’s publication of names in the Kashamu group.
He said Adebutu was duly nominated by the party and asked INEC to name Adebutu instead of Kashamu as candidate.
But reacting, Kashamu said he remained the governorship candidate of the party as declared by a Federal High Court in Abuja on Jan.14, insisting that the verdict was binding on the party and INEC.
He said the judgment had not been vacated by any court and that INEC had acted according to the law by recognising only the results of the congress that produced him as candidate.
