A legal practitioner and chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Benson Enikuomehin, has urged the national leadership of the party to disqualify Deputy Governor of the State, Agboola Ajayi, from participating in the party’s primary scheduled for Wednesday.
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Enikuomehin stated that the law court would do the needful if the party failed to act owing to the Bayelsa State experience.
Enikuomehin said his incessant calls for the disqualification of Hon Ajayi were based on a suit filed at an Ondo State High Court by a member of the PDP, Comrade Eganosi Ayenuberu.
In the suit, Comrade Ayenuberu claimed that the Ondo Deputy Governor obtained his academic qualifications in breach of the 1999 constitution, extant laws, manuals and regulations guiding various examination bodies.
Comrade Ayenuberui is seeking an order disqualifying Hon Ajayi from participating in the PDP primary.
Ayenuberu is also asking the court to restrain the PDP from presenting Ajayi to INEC for the purpose of election.
Dr. Enikuomehin who spoke at a press briefing in Akure warned that the PDP would eventually lose power even if the party wins the governorship election.
According to him, “If we succeed at the governorship election and the issue that has to do with these certificates that has been described in the petition, our opponents will only raise the issue that somebody sat for an examination in two separate schools and obtained results here in Akure.
“The young man sat for May/June in Aquinas College. In the same May/June he sat for the examination in Victory College, Ikare at the same time, same date and same examination. He passed both examinations.
“Other facts are here. It is necessary as concerned leaders of the party, our national leaders must do something in this respect, failure of do so, we may be cruising home to the Bayelsa experience. We may work hard and after winning a red card will be showed to us.
“We urge the leadership of the party in Abuja to look critically at this matter.”
But Hon Agboola who spoke through his Media Adviser, Sowore Allen, said previous courts’ ruling have vindicated him.
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