CONTROVERSIAL LAGOS PDP PRIMARIES: COURT ORDERS AGBAJE TO STOP PARADING SELF AS PDP GUBER CANDIDATE.

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to maintain status quo on the contentious gubernatorial primaries held in Lagos over a week ago, in which Mr Jimi Agabaje emerged the party's candidate for the 2015 governorship poll.
The court forbade Agbaje who was declared winner of the PDP guber primaries from parading himself as the party's guber candidate until the case, which the court fixed for December 23 is settled.

Senator Musiliu Obanikoro had pleaded with the court to compel the party not to accept the result of the primaries held on December 8, due to the alleged misconduct during the exercise. He said a total of 806 accredited voters were announced at the commencement of voting, but 866 delegates later voted.
In addition, Obanikoro also asked the court not to recognise Agbaje because, according to him, he joined the party barely six months ago and, as such, was morally unfit to contest for governorship, since the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party had not given him a waiver.
He also told the court that the leader of the party in Lagos, Chief Olabode George, allegedly came with thugs to scare accredited voters loyal to him away from the venue. Obanikoro is seeking for outright cancellation of the exercise and a rerun at a date to be fixed.