PDP rejects Edo LG by-election

The Edo section of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has described Saturday’s section authorities by-election organised by the Edo Independent Electoral Commission (EDSIEC) arsenic illegal.

Dr Tony Aziegbemi, the State Caretaker Chairman of the party, said this successful Benin portion addressing newsmen connected the exercise.

He stated that the by-elections scheduled crossed 59 wards successful the authorities violated a subsisting tribunal bid restraining EDSIEC and the authorities from conducting it.

“Only past week, the Edo State High Court, presided implicit by Justice Mary Itsueli, ordered that the seats of duly elected councillors subsist until September 2026.

“The tribunal categorically restrained EDSIEC from proceeding with immoderate specified election. For the authorities authorities to disregard this bid and proceed is alarming,” Aziegbemi said.

He warned that information agencies indispensable not legitimise the process, stressing that information by the PDP would person amounted to aiding contempt of court.

“The tenure of the elected chairmen and councillors has not expired; we person 5 tribunal judgments affirming this. Conducting a by-election is unlawful,” helium said.

Aziegbemi further alleged that the workout was a ploy to siphon nationalist funds.

The PDP president said the enactment would alternatively ore connected strengthening its structures done ongoing congresses and preparing for the 2027 wide elections.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the authorities electoral assemblage is presently conducting by-elections into 59 councillorship seats crossed 18 section authorities councils.

The seats were declared vacant done a solution of the State House of Assembly, which cited absenteeism of the erstwhile occupants.

(NAN)

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