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Fresh Trouble For Obaseki As ADP Candidate Asks Court To Void Edo 2020 Election

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The victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki in the September 19 Edo 2020 Election is set to be challenged at the Election Petitions Tribunal by the governorship candidate of Action Democratic Party (ADP), Iboyi Emmanuel.

Naija News reports that Emmanuel made his decision to challenge Obaseki’s election known at a news conference on Tuesday in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital through ADP National Chairman Yabagi Yusuf Sani.

According to the ADP National Chairman, the decision to challenge Obaseki’s election aimed at strengthening democratic rule, adding that the ADP believed that the court should determine the propriety of Obaseki’s educational certificates and the process that led to his selection as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the Edo election.

His words: “The questions are very simple. Can a candidate buy nomination forms from two parties in the same election cycle? Can a student get into a university with just three Credits and without Mathematics and English?

“Can a political party shift the date of the sales of its nomination forms after giving the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the public a date? Can a political party extend the date of its primaries with just five days’ notice to INEC when the Electoral Act stipulates seven days? Can a dead and buried Vice-Chancellor sign a student’s result and date it after his death?”

“Most importantly, if any of these issues is resolved in the negative, can the PDP be said to have fielded a candidate in the Edo State governorship election?

“We should all be thankful to our candidate, Iboyi Emmanuel, who has gone to court to ask these fundamental questions on behalf of Nigerians. The man will end up deepening our democracy.

“This country shouldn’t be about political parties; it should be about laws, justice and equity. I want to assure you that we are ready to prosecute this matter to a logical conclusion until justice is done to the great people of Edo State,” Sani opined.