Barely minutes after the Appeal Court in Abuja ruled that INEC should remove the name of Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the Saturday governorship election in Ondo State, the electoral body has released an official statement.
INEC, through the Chief Press Secretary to the Chairman of the commission, Mr. Rotimi Oyekanmi, said that it will obey the judgement of the Court Appeal.
The commission said it would now replace Mr Jimoh Ibrahim’s name with that of Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) as ordered by the appeal court.
However, the electoral body said that the order of the court should be served on it before Friday.
It said it was when such judgment is served on it that it will immediately comply with it.
Oyekanmi nevertheless said that the commission was not planning to shift the date of the election.
“Yes, the judgment as we followed it shows that we must replace the name of Ibrahim with that of Jegede.
“We will obey the judgment because this is an order coming from a superior court. We will abide by that decision.
“However, we will expect that the judgment be served on us before Friday to enable us comply. When we are served, we will comply immediately.
“But we are not going to shift the date of the election. We have passed that stage.
The election is going to hold on Saturday, November 26 as scheduled,”
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