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THE UNTOLD: How Jegede Actually Lost out To Jimoh Ibrahim; The Trap Sets By Ali Modu Sheriff, Mimiko Childish Politicking

Senator Ali Modu Sheriff And Gov. Olusegun Mimiko Crisis has reportedly erupted in Ondo State yesterday over the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to drop Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, the anointed candidate of Governor Oluse...

JImoh Ibrahim: INEC Action Might Set Ondo On Fire - Olusegun Mimiko warns

Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State on Friday alerted President Muhammadu Buhari of the potential danger of the declaration of Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the...

REVEALED: Why INEC Actually Dropped Jegede For Jimoh As PDP Ondo Guber Candidate Despite New Court Order

News Punch published yesterday that the independent National Electoral Commission, the INEC yesterday eventually bowed and dropped Mr. Eyitayo Jegede of the Ahmed Makarfi led the faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and instead, enl...

BREAKING: INEC Bows, Drops Jegede, Names Jimoh Ibrahim PDP gov candidate

The Independent National Electoral Commission has dropped Mr. Eyitayo Jegede and instead named Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State. How I Increase My B...

Ondo Governorship: Court SACKS PDP's Eyitayo Jegede As Guber Candidate

A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to accept Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State. Justice Okon Abang g...

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The Group Managing Director of Energy Group, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, was yesterday, in Ibadan, elected as the Ondo State gubernatorial candidate of the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction of the PDP for the November 26 election. The immediat...

BREAKING: Mimiko's Stooge Wins Ondo PDP Governorship Primary Election

A Former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, on Monday won the Primaries to bear the Peoples Democratic Party’s flag in the forthcoming governorship election in the state. The Senior Advocates of Nigeri...

PDP Crisis: Governors DIVIDED; Mimiko & Co Dump Makarfi, Hold All Night Meeting With Sheriff

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THE UNTOLD: How Jegede Actually Lost out To Jimoh Ibrahim; The Trap Sets By Ali Modu Sheriff, Mimiko Childish Politicking

THE UNTOLD: How Jegede Actually Lost out To Jimoh Ibrahim; The Trap Sets By Ali Modu Sheriff, Mimiko Childish Politicking
Senator Ali Modu Sheriff And Gov. Olusegun Mimiko
Crisis has reportedly erupted in Ondo State yesterday over the decision of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC to drop Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, the anointed candidate of Governor Olusegun Mimiko and the factional Chairman of the PDP, Alhaji Ahmed Makarfi for the bussiness mogul and Senator Ali Modu Sheriff PDP faction candidate, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, News Punch understands.

Facts according to New Telegraph are beginning to emerge on how a purported political solution to the nomination crisis trailing the PDP for the November 26th governorship election in Ondo State crashed like a pack of card.


THE UNTOLD: How Jegede Actually Lost out To Jimoh Ibrahim; The Trap Sets By Ali Modu Sheriff, Mimiko Childish Politicking
Eyitayo Jegede and Jimoh Ibrahim
(The Embattling Ondo PDP Candidates)
According to a source privy to the undercurrent moves in both Makarfi and Modu-Sherrif’s camp, the issue over who will be the standard bearer between both factions shouldn’t have degenerated to the level it got yesterday, whereby INEC had to resort to a court ruling before listing a candidate for the party ahead of the poll.

According to the source, “Mimiko’s camp underrated Jimoh and one is amused that a political general like Mimiko will watch and see his house come down easily like this.

There were several effort made by some stakeholders with the intention of reaching a feasible truce where both interests will be satisfied but ego, over confidence and misplaced priority didn’t allow the Mimiko Camp to bend.

“I can tell you for free that Mimiko and Ibrahim used to be friends, in fact, there was a pact between them both in 2012 when Mimiko was about to seek re-election as governor but after the election, things didn’t work out between them especially on the ‘agreement’ on bringing Jimoh on board as a consultant on economic issues.

“A legal trap was set for them by the Sherrif’s faction of the Ondo PDP who waited for two weeks to end of INEC’s nomination window before approaching the Court to validate Jimoh based on a ruling last June.

Interestingly, they didn’t join Jegede in the suit but only INEC, who they knew won’t appeal the judgement.” Another reliable source told Saturday Telegraph that the Mimiko camp refused to seize the advantage of a political solution dangled before them but rather chose to ignore and call the acclaimed billionaire names.

“Instead for them to seek peace with Jimoh Ibrahim, they rather chose to be begging Modu-Sheriff, who incidentally unknown to them was using them as pun. What he (Sheriff) said that he won’t pressurise the INEC on which candidate to pick between both factions, was as a result of intense heat on me to step down on the candidature of Jimoh.

Everyone knows that Jimoh cannot ordinarily win election but ignoring him completely is also political suicidal, 

 “Jimoh Ibrahim was expecting them to approach him for a political truce but they felt they should rather appease Sheriff.

For Jimoh, it’s not a do-or-die affair but he always insists that the candidate of the PDP must come the South. He was ready to step down but not for Jegede. He wanted to step down for Mimiko’s former Commissioner, Sola Ebiseni, who defected to the APC.

But they wouldn’t want to listen to anything other than Jegede who is from the Central.”

JImoh Ibrahim: INEC Action Might Set Ondo On Fire - Olusegun Mimiko warns

olusegun mimiko
Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State on Friday alerted President Muhammadu Buhari of the potential danger of the declaration of Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the forthcoming gubernatorial election in the state, warning that the move by INEC could cause a conflagration in the state.



The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had yesterday removed the name of Eyitayo Jegede of the PDP from the list of the candidates of the political parties that would participate in the November 26 governorship election and replaced it with that of Ibrahim.
Speaking with State House correspondents shortly after meeting behind closed-doors with Buhari at the Presidential Villa, he expressed reservations over the ability of INEC to conduct a credible election in the state.

The Governor said there was no moral justification for what the INEC did, describing Ibrahim’s declaration as injustice and mischief.


He said the President has promised to look into it and that if there is any injustice, assuring that it will be rectified.

Daily Post

REVEALED: Why INEC Actually Dropped Jegede For Jimoh As PDP Ondo Guber Candidate Despite New Court Order

Eyitayo Jegede and Jimoh Ibrahim

Until the commission released the final list of all the candidates that would contest the election, on Thursday evening, the name of Jegede was put on its website as the candidate of the PDP, report according to Punch Newspaper says


It was gathered that INEC, in a letter sent to the Ondo State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Segun Agbaje, the commission described the list as final.

The letter conveying the list was signed by the Secretary to the Commission, Mr. Augusta Ogakwu.

The emergence of Ibrahim came on the heels of a ruling by a Federal High Court in Abuja, which rejected a move by Jegede to appeal against the recognition of Ibrahim as the candidate of the PDP.

Specifically, Justice Okon Abang, on Thursday, dismissed the application by Jegede on the grounds that he lacked the locus standi to file it.

Jegede had by his application sought the leave of the court to appeal against the judgment directing INEC to recognise Ibrahim as the party’s candidate.

The October 14, 2016, judgment of the court which Jegede sought to appeal was for the enforcement of an earlier verdict of the same court delivered on June 29, 2016, and which directed INEC to only accept the list of PDP candidate submitted by the Biyi Poroye-led executive in the state.

But in his ruling on Thursday Justice Abang held that the application lacked merit.

While striking it out, the judge held that Jegede was not mentioned in the substantive matter and, as such, he lacked the locus standi to seek leave to appeal the judgment.

The judge ruled, “He (Jegede) also lacked the right to be joined in the main suit and, as such, he cannot be joined thereafter or have the right to appeal the judgment. He is not entitled to appeal.

“There is nothing from the records of the court leading to the judgment of June 29, showing that the applicant has interest in the matter.”

But a High Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State capital, earlier in the day restrained INEC from removing the name of Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN) as the candidate of the PDP for the November 26, 2016, governorship election.

Justice William Olamide gave the ruling on Thursday based on an ex-parte motion brought before the court by the Clement Faboyede-led PDP faction in the state.

An Abuja High Court had on October 15 ordered the electoral commission to remove Jegede’s name for the name of Ibrahim.

In his ruling, Justice Olamide said that it would be out of order for INEC to replace Jegede’s name, pending the determination of the motion on notice, saying doing such would contravene the principles of equity, justice and fairness.

Excertps From Punch Newspaper used in the article

BREAKING: INEC Bows, Drops Jegede, Names Jimoh Ibrahim PDP gov candidate

Jimoh Ibrahim
The Independent National Electoral Commission has dropped Mr. Eyitayo Jegede and instead named Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party for the November 26 governorship election in Ondo State.


The commission also named Mr. Alabi Ebenezer Omotayo as his running mate.

A federal High  Court had few days ago ruled that Mr jimoh Ibrahim, the factional candidate of Senator Ali Modu Sheriff is the authentic candidate of the party as against Eyitayo Jegede, who was nominated be the Ahmed Makarfi Faction of the party

Details later

Related Post: REVEALED: Why INEC Actually Dropped Jegede For Jimoh As PDP Ondo Guber Candidate Despite New Court Order

Ondo Governorship: Court SACKS PDP's Eyitayo Jegede As Guber Candidate

Eyitayo Jegede
A Federal High Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission to accept Jimoh Ibrahim as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the forthcoming governorship election in Ondo State.

Justice Okon Abang gave the order in a ruling on an application for the enforcement of his earlier judgment delivered on June 29, 2016.

The judgment came after the electoral body recognised Eyitayo Jegede, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, as the governorship candidate of the PDP in the state.


The court, in the June 29 judgment, in a suit with number, FHC/ABJ/CS/395/2016, had ordered INEC to only accept the names of the candidates sent by the Biyi Poroye and Ademola Genty-led Executive Committee of the PDP in the state.

Poroye and Genty, who applied to the court for themselves and on behalf of the Ondo State Executive Committee of the PDP, said the post-judgment application was informed by INEC’s refusal to accept their candidate, as directed by the court in its June 29 judgment.

In his ruling on Friday, Justice Abang held that INEC had no justifiable reason not to accept the candidate submitted to INEC by the plaintiffs.

He noted that INEC participated in the proceedings leading to the June 29 judgment but failed to oppose the case of the plaintiffs.

The judge wondered why INEC did not promptly comply with the judgment when it did not have any objection to the case.

He further faulted INEC’s stance by not complying with the judgment as there was no appeal filed against the judgment.

The judge ruled, “INEC knew that issues were not joined by parties on the date of the election but issues were joined by parties as regards who INEC was ordered to deal with exclusively during the plaintiffs’ tenure as executive officers.

“As for PDP in Ondo State, the purport of the order of court being that any election conducted by INEC during the applicants’ tenure in office, INEC has no choice but to accept the list of candidates from the instant judgment creditors/applicants herein.”

The judge then ordered INEC to “accept and process for the purpose of its functions and activities in the organisation and conduct of the Ondo State governorship election only the nomination of Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim Folorunso, who emerged from the primary election conducted by the 1st and 2nd plaintiffs/applicants, as candidate of the 2nd defendant (PDP) in the said Ondo governorship election.”

He also ordered INEC to “reject and jettison any other nomination form(s) submitted to it by any other person(s) apart from the 1st and 2nd plaintiffs/applicants, indicating that no other person, apart from Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim Folorunso, is the candidate of the 2nd defendant for the Ondo State governorship election.”

Meanwhile, the Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the Ondo State chapter of PDP has urged its members to disregard the court judgment.

In a statement issued by the Publicity Secretary of the Makarfi- led faction of the party, Mr. Banji Okunomo, the party maintained that Jegede remained its candidate for the forthcoming governorship election.

Punch Newspaper

Ondo Governorship: cONfuSIon As Billionaire Jimoh Ibrahim Emerges Second PDP Candidate

Ondo Governorship: cONfuSIon As Billionaire Jimoh Ibrahim Emerges Second PDP Candidate
The Group Managing Director of Energy Group, Barrister Jimoh Ibrahim, was yesterday, in Ibadan, elected as the Ondo State gubernatorial candidate of the Senator Ali Modu Sheriff-led faction of the PDP for the November 26 election.

The immediate past attorney-general and commissioner for justice in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, who has the support of Governor Olusegun Mimiko, had last week Monday emerged as the winner of the Senator Ahmed Makarfi-led faction of the PDP.

With this development, the PDP has elected two candidates for the election.

The opposition APC would today elect its candidate out of 24 aspirants.

Though the primary poll conducted by the Makarfi-led group, in Akure, was monitored by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), likelihood existed that the party’s candidate would be determined by court, where the two contending national chairmen are battling for legitimacy.

The Sheriff’s faction conducted the primary poll in Ibadan, fearing breakdown of law and order in Akure.

Jimoh Ibrahim polled 502 votes in the PDP governorship primary election held inside the Banquet Hall of the Premier Hotel, Ibadan, with the other aspirant, Olusola Ebiseni, scoring 41 votes. 

Ibrahim was among the five aspirants who jostled for the gubernatorial ticket.

Three others, Mrs. Abiye Ademoyegun, Bamiduro Dada and Niran-Sule Akinsuyi withdrew from the race and declared their support for Ibrahim.

The electoral committee was headed by Barrister Ahmed Gulak, special adviser to former president Goodluck Jonathan.

He was supported by Shettima Shehu, Chief Tunji Akinosi, Elder Layi Falaju, Mala Sheriff, Ozo Uchechukwu Ngwu, Bimbo Balogun, Prince Poroye Bill Biyi, Ikenna Nnajioffor, Lawan Gana Karasuwa and the secretary of the committee, Bernand Mikko. 

Ibrahim, in his acceptance speech, pledged to create jobs, establish industrial hub in Ondo State and develop education.


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BREAKING: Mimiko's Stooge Wins Ondo PDP Governorship Primary Election

A Former Commissioner for Justice and Attorney-General of Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, on Monday won the Primaries to bear the Peoples Democratic Party’s flag in the forthcoming governorship election in the state.

The Senior Advocates of Nigeria, SAN, scored 760 votes to beat Saka Lawal, his only rival, who scored only 22 votes.

Jegede, who has been tagged governor Olusegun Mimiko’s anointed candidate has generated a lot of controversies since declaring to run for the state’s number one seat.


Both Mimiko and Jegede are from Ondo Central senatorial district, Akure.


PDP Crisis: Governors DIVIDED; Mimiko & Co Dump Makarfi, Hold All Night Meeting With Sheriff

RipplesNigeria - The leadership crisis rocking the PDP, is far from over and may even polarise the party further, as the latest ruling of the Federal High Court, Abuja has split the rank of governors elected on the party’s platform along pro and anti-Sheriff lines.

Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court, Abuja, had last Thursday, declared Senator Ali Modu Sheriff as the authentic chairman of the party, declaring the Ahmed Makarfi led caretaker committee as illegal and the Port Harcourt Federal High Court judgment recognising Makarfi’s committee as unknown in law.

According to reports, jolted by the judgment, Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State was said to have held a secret meeting with Sheriff on Thursday night.

Similarly, some members of the Board of Trustees BoT of the PDP are believed to have changed their stands by wooing Sheriff, who may convene a stakeholders meeting later this week.

According to sources, Mimiko’s secret meeting was because of the need to have Sheriff push the candidature of his anointed candidate, Mr. Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, for the state governorship election later in the year.

The sources also claimed that Mimiko pledged loyalty to Sheriff while also canvassing for the reconciliation of all camps in the party.

A source close to the meeting said: “The meeting was a follow up to the decision of the court that Sheriff is the authentic chairman of the party.

“It was secret but fruitful. Don’t forget that Mimiko is also the outgoing chairman of the PDP Governors Forum.

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“In all honesty, the governor also spoke on how to keep the party united.

“Mimiko actually said he will abide by the Rule of Law on the crisis in the party.

“You know Ondo chapter of the PDP will soon hold its governorship primaries. He does not want the crisis in the party to have spiral effect on the choice of candidate in Ondo as the case with Edo State.”

Another PDP source however disclosed that the PDP governors have broken into two camps on account of the court ruling.

According to the source, the governors of Taraba, Gombe, Enugu, Cross River, and Ondo are backing Sheriff while those of Rivers, Ekiti, Ebonyi, Delta, Abia, Akwa Ibom are against him.

The source however said the Bayelsa Governor, Seriake Dickson, is playing the role of peace maker,working hard at reconciling the factions.

The source said: “We are experiencing a division among our governors because of the ruling of the court. Some are insisting that the party should abide by the rule of law and engage Sheriff.

“Some of the governors said the party should save itself from Sheriff by going through the legal battle from the lower court to the Supreme Court.

“But Governor Dickson is preaching dialogue and reconciliation to both sides because the time element is important for PDP. We need to put our house in order before the 2019 poll.

The source insisted that If Sheriff sticks to his mandate till 2018, the party will remain divided and unprepared for the next election. Alternatively, he said most of the leaders will leave the party.








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