A pro-Democracy group, Concerned Deltans for good governance, has staged a protest, calling for the resignation of the Peoples Democratic Party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu for failing to uphold the court order served the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC which disqualified Sheriff Oborevwori as the Peoples Democratic Party’s candidate in Delta State.
Addressing journalists during the protest at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, the youths accused Ayu of allowing the matter to linger on as it will give the All progressives Congress APC in the state an opportunity to clinch power in 2023.
The group also accused the state governor, Ifeanyi Okowa of conniving with the party’s national chairman to keep fueling the crisis in the state’s PDP’s chapter and called on him to do the needful by resolving the matter to pacify aggrieved members of the party ahead of the 2023 general elections.
The disqualified governorship candidate, Oborevwori, who is also the Speaker of the Delta House of Assembly, was accused of supplying false information and submitting forged certificates to take part and emerge as the winner of the PDP governorship primary in the state.
The order had directed the PDP and INEC to replace Oborevwori’s name with that of the plaintiff, David Edevbie, who scored the second highest votes in the party’s governorship primary.
Editor : Ena Agbanoma
