ONDO GOV POLL: Jimoh Ibrahim, Olusola Oke’s names missing on INEC’s final list

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Mr Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, SAN, of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were among the governorship hopefuls whose names were discharged in the last rundown by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for competitors that will partake in the anticipated governorship races in Ondo State. Olusola Oke, Conspicuously, the names of Mr Jimoh Ibrahim and Chief Olusola Oke were excluded from the last rundown discharged by the commission. A Federal High Court had requested INEC to perceive Jimoh Ibrahim as the PDP applicant in the Ondo race. However, Vanguard
accumulated that the commission was all the while counseling with her legal advisors on the advancement, a rundown of 28 competitors dated September 22 and as of late redesigned on its site demonstrated the that there has been no substitution of any of the applicants. Boss Oke, who absconded to the Alliance for Democracy, AD, after the dubious primaries of the APC additionally endures comparable destiny as Ibrahim. In the rundown, the AD applicant, Mr Akin Enoch Zerubabel Olowookere and his 72-year old running mate, Yahaya Ipinloju are together number 4 on the rundown. INEC to convey 16,723 staff Meantime, to direct the governorship race in Ondo State, planned for Saturday, November 26th 2016, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is to send 16,723 faculty. Ondo state is comprised of 18 Local Government Areas, 203 Registration Areas, and 3,010 Polling Units. It has a sum of 1,660,055 enlisted voters. A breakdown of the 16,723 faculty to be conveyed shows that INEC would send one Returning Officer, 18 Local Government Collation Officers, 203 Registration Area Collation Officers, 301 Supervisory Presiding Officer, SPOs, 3,010 Presiding Officers, POs, and 11, 103 Assistant Presiding Officers. $1m fix: INEC blames Jimoh Ibrahim for lying Jimoh Ibrahim Also, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has formally responded to assertions by a factional applicant of the Peoples Democratic Party PDP in the imminent Ondo race, Jimoh Ibrahim such that an INEC staff had requested a pay off of $1 million from him. INEC in an announcement issued in Abuja and marked by its National Commissioner accountable for Information, Prince Solomon Soyebi, excused its Director of Legal Services, Mrs Toyin Babalola of the claim. INEC said Mr Ibrahim had raged its home office with a duplicate of a court judgment requesting his office to be acknowledged by the gathering, saying while the visit was unforeseen, INEC does not likewise manage people but rather parties. "On locating the surprising visitor, Mrs Babalola called three different legal advisors in her area of expertise to witness her experience with Mr Ibrahim and amenably let him know that the commission was at that point possessing the court report. At no time amid the experience that kept going under 15 minutes did Mrs Babalola request $1 million. Hence, the affirmation by Mr Ibrahim is false", INEC said. On the charge that the Resident Electoral Commissioner REC in Ondo State, Mr Segun Agbaje asked for a private meeting with Ibrahim in London, INEC said: "The commission found that it was Mr Ibrahim, who through a middle person, attempted to organize a meeting with the Ondo REC in London. This Mr
Agbaje quickly declined and demanded that if Mr Ibrahim needed to see him, he was allowed to do as such at the Ondo State INEC office amid authority hours. In this way, Mr Ibrahim's record is not the right record of what really occurred."