In what appears to be an end to the supremacy battle between the Edo State governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki and Chief Dan Orbih, Vice-Chairman, South-South of the Peoples Democratic Party, the Independent Electoral Commission has officially recognised candidates produced by the latter’s faction at the party primaries held earlier this year.
This is coming on the heels of the division and confusion in the Edo PDP in recent time over the authentic candidates of the party in the next year’s general elections.
The PDP held its primaries nationwide on May this year, but in Edo State, both factions held parallel primaries and consequently produced candidates for different elective positions.
The parallel primaries held in the state and the consequent emergence of winners at both ends for different elective positions resulted in litigations and judgements from different courts.
On Tuesday afternoon, INEC published a comprehensive list of candidates and it was discovered that all the PDP candidates on the list are the ones who emerged winners at the primaries conducted by the Dan Orbih’s faction.
The INEC in the published list, however, remarked that its action was ordered by the court. Meanwhile, the Supreme Court is expected to give its final judgement on the matter in the coming days, ahead of the 2023 polls.
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