The Ondo State gubernatorial election has generated so much skirmishes from the major contending political parties, the People's Democratic Party and the All Progressives Congress.
Ali Modu Sheriff
Two factions of the Peoples Democratic Party have submitted the names of two different people as their candidates for the Ondo State governorship election.
The two camps are that of the National Caretaker Committee headed by Senator Ahmed Makarfi while the other is a faction led by Senator Ali Modu Sheriff.
A Punch correspondent gathered that while Makarfi’s camp submitted the name of Mr. Eyitayo Jegede (SAN), Sheriff’s faction gave the name of Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim as its own candidate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.
The election is scheduled to hold on November 26. The All Progressives Congress in Ondo State has also endured its fair share of intra-party rivalries with the mandate of a former Nigerian Bar Association, Rotimi Akeredolu being threatened by the powers-that-be in the oil rich state.
Investigations by a correspondent in Abuja on Thursday showed that the Sheriff’s camp submitted the name “a few hours ago.”
The faction was said to have relied on two court orders, one of which asked the commission to take candidates for the governorship elections in Edo and Ondo states from Sheriff’s camp.
The spokesman for the faction, Mr. Bernard Mikko, confirmed the submission of the name of Ibrahim by his faction. Mikko, a former member of the House of Representatives, said his faction was sure of winning the election in the state.
However, a member of the National Caretaker Committee under the leadership of Makarfi, Prince Dayo Adeyeye, faulted the submission of Ibrahim’s name by the Sheriff faction.