The ex-Governor Ahmed Makarfi-led Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in Benue State has dragged the Benue State Independent Electoral
Commission (BSIEC) before a Federal High Court sitting in Makurdi over alleged
rejection of its candidates list for the expected June 3, local government
elections in the state.
In the suit filed at the weekend by its team of lawyers, the
Makarafi-PDP has urged the court to stop BSIEC from holding the elections into
the 23 local government councils of the state pending when the commission
accepts their own candidates list for the polls.
The faction also prayed the court to compel the commission
to recognised their State Chairman, Sir John Ngbede and his executive as the
authentic PDP in the state and to forthwith stop all forms of recognition of
the Alhaji Ali Modu Sherriff's group, Mr. Dan Ale as State Chairman of the
party.
State Publicity Secretary of the Makarafi-led PDP, Bemgba
Iortyom, told our correspondent yesterday in Makurdi that the action followed
the release of unopposed list of All Progressives Congress (APC) candidates to
solely participate in the election.
Iortyom said that the commission formally intimated his
party through writing last week that the rejection of their (Makarafi) list was
occasioned by the directive it received from the PDP's national secretariat,
adding that the chairman of BSIEC, Dr. John Tor Tsuwa, had insisted that
the list which contained the candidates' names was not signed by the Chairman
of the party, Sheriff and so the commission could not identified with it.
A check in Makurdi on the released list by BSIEC showed that
APC fielded candidates for all the available positions in all the councils for
the polls while two others of Labour Party (LP) and Social Democratic Party
(SDP) had candidates in only between two and four local governments
respectively, leaving out both factions of the PDP completely out of the game.
Contacted, the BSIEC Information officer, Mr. Augustine
Odiba, said the commission at the time of sending this report was yet to be
served any court summons and that its chairman would speak about the matter
raised by the PDP this week.
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