The embattled National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, has produced Matthew Idurioyekemwen as his own faction’s gubernatorial candidate in Edo State.
Modu Sheriff had conducted a parallel congress during which Idurioyekemwen, who had earlier lost to Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu at the primaries conducted by the PDP National Caretaker Committee, emerged. This was even as Sheriff expressed confidence that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will acknowledge his candidate for the election.
Speaking on Tuesday when he presented certificate of return to Iduoriyekwemwen in Abuja, Sheriff said that he was backed by Justice Okon Abang of Federal High Court in Abuja, which ordered the electoral body to accept nomination for the September 10 election from his faction of the PDP.
“It is clear from Abuja High Court that INEC is obliged to accept the candidate we are to present.
“You know ideally, most of our officials have travelled for Sallah. We need to do this because, the first working day, we are going to submit our candidate’s form to INEC.
“I have to stay behind to do some of the things so as to ensure that the forms are submitted after the Sallah break.” [myad]
