A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State and a former Deputy Governor, Yomi Awoniyi, on Saturday, rejected the delegates list for the PDP\u2019s primary election scheduled for Sunday.<\/p>\n
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Some other candidates joined Awoniyi in rejecting the delegates list.<\/p>\n
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They made their position known at a news conference held in Lokoja on Saturday.<\/p>\n
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Present at the news conference were some leaders, party chairmen and stalwarts.<\/p>\n
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Awoniyi told journalists that the delegates list put together at the March 29 and April 8 ad-hoc and delegates\u2019 congresses in the area had been manipulated to favour a particular aspirant.<\/p>\n
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He said, \u201cWe are calling this meeting to address the great anomalies that have come to the fore regarding the PDP primary election slated for Sunday.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWith me here are photocopies of the authentic delegates list, which had been duly certified by INEC as the result of what transpired on March 29 at the PDP congress in Kogi.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe have copies of the delegates list for the twenty-one local government areas and the entire two hundred thirty-nine wards across the state supported by the state\u2019s PDP executives.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIt\u2019s trite to say that while the party sets up guidelines for due process and the process is adhered to, it\u2019s unreasonable to have the same party jeopardising the same process by importing strange names into the delegates list.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n
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\u201cThere will be serious and grave consequences for the PDP if the approved delegates list isn\u2019t used.\u201d<\/p>\n
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On his part, another frontline aspirant, Dr Bolufemi Rotimi, said, \u201cFailure not to use the authentic list will result in cancellation of the whole process.<\/p>\n
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\u201cIf they forge any list on Sunday for the primary election, there\u2019s going to be a serious crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Also speaking, a PDP senatorial candidate for Kogi West, Tajudeen Yusuf branded the manipulated delegates list as a terrible development and an attempt to commit fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kogi State and a former Deputy Governor, Yomi…\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34,140,1116],"class_list":{"0":"post-6362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-kogi","8":"tag-pdp","9":"tag-yomi-awoniyi"},"yoast_head":"\n