George Daika Not Eligible To Contest Plateau South Senatorial  Bye Election – Group

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Yakubu Busari

A Group in Plateau state operating under the aegis of Inspired Southern Zone Youths on Monday alleged that the Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party PDP in the forthcoming  Plateau South Senatorial bye-election  George Daika is not eligible to contest the election because the process that produced him as the candidate of the party is faulty.

 

The group in a statement signed by Miss Angela Barde and made available to newsmen in Jos said that   As long as elections of the state Executive EXCO  of the PDP   that conducted the primary election was nullified by a court of law, then anything done by that exco is equally null and void.

 

 

It could be recalled that the Plateau State High Court sitting in Jos on Thursday sacked the Hon Chris Hassan led Exco of the state Peoples Democratic Party, PDP,  and described the Congress that produced it as illegal and lacking in merit under the law of natural justice.

 

Justice P.S.Gang made the statement while delivering judgment on a suit filed by the former Member Representing Jos South /Jos East Federal Constituency, Hon Bitrus Kaze, challenging their exclusion from participating in the Congresses conducted by Hon Yakubu Chocho’s caretaker committee.

 

The judgment read that for the National Secretariat of the party to have reappointed Hon Yakubu Chocho into the caretaker committee to conduct screening of members, was illegal and unconstitutional based on section 223 of the Constitution, as amended, and section 25(a) of PDP guidelines for the conduct of wards, LGs and state congresses.

 

Addressing newsmen in Jos, the group leader Miss Barde said that we call on the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC to disqualify George Daika from contesting Saturday’s bye-election.

We wish to remind the PDP  that the court isn’t a political association or as compromised as they may have wished and think.

 

The order of the court in the sacking of the state EXCO is very clear and self-explanatory to the good citizens of Plateau State.

 

As a group, we call on INEC not to allow the candidate of the PDP to participate in the forthcoming Plateau south bye-election.

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