Just last week, the Independent National Electoral Commission {INEC] rolled out the election timetable for the conduct of the governorship election in Kogi State. The timetable which was widely publicised has heightened tensions among different camps within the same party and across party lines. The Moment gathered that pressure is being mounted on the two main camps within the Peoples Democratic Party, the ruling party in the state.
The Jibrin Isah /Clarence Olafenmi groups who have been labouring assiduously to convince the party hierarchy to ensure that the last gubernatorial primary election which produced the duo as governor and deputy governorship candidates respectively should be made to stand while on the other hand the meeting of governorship aspirants who contested are urging the party to call for a fresh primary election to enable them participate in it.
Last week, Air Vice Marshall Salihu Atawodi, a PDP aspirant in the botched PDP gubernatorial primary election addressed the press, urging the party and all those interested in the governorship race to get prepared for a fresh primary.
He made the statement as a result of the INEC timetable for the conduct of the gubernatorial elections in five states of the federation to canvass for a fresh primary to save the party from the legal logjam that may arise, should the PDP decides to uphold the last primary.
From Isah Kutepa, the acclaimed runner-up of the last primary to Chief Bayo Ojo, former attorney-general and a host of other aspirants, they are demanding a fresh gubernatorial primary election so that the party could field its best candidate.
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