#PDP primaries: Voting materials arrive late in Ekiti: Voting materials arrived late in Ekiti State on Saturday for the Peoples Democratic Party’s House of Representatives Primaries. A five-member Electoral Committee from the PDP national secretariat led by Alhaji Bala Suleiman arrived at the state secretariat of the party in Ado-Ekiti arround 4:30 p.m. Suleiman said the committee received materials on Saturday morning in Abuja and had to travel by road to Ado-Ekiti. He said, “We just collected the materials from our national secretariat today and we had to travel a far distance to get to Ekiti because we came by road. “We are not happy subjecting our aspirants and delegates to stress, but I want to assure that they will be given level-playing ground. None of them will be schemed out of contention.” The Chairman of the party, Chief Idowu Faleye, explained that the party asked all aspirants to sign an undertaking not to take the party to Court after the primaries in order to prevent post–primaries crisis. “The party is trying to be careful and block all loop holes that can vitiate the process. Ballot papers have been deployed to all the constituencies and I have instructed them to have a standby generator to power the centres so that the process can be hitch- free,” he said. There was heavy presence of policemen when journalists visited the headquarters of the Federal Constituencies located in Ido, Ikole, Aramoko, Ado, Omuo and Ikere-Ekiti. The Police Commissioner, Mr Taiwo Lakanu, also deployed large number of riot policemen in the party’s secretariat to forestall breakdown of law and order. Of particular note was the Ido centre, where seven aspirants were said to be in contention. The aspirants are Cyril Fasuyi, Thaddeus Aina, Dotun Onipede, Bamidele Victor Oluwole, Mrs. Deborah Alo, Banji Oyinloye and Yomi Ayorinde. The police, led by Supol Ogbonnaya Okoronkwo, cordoned the centre located within the premises of the Ido/Osi Local Government Council in Ido-Ekiti. Only delegates were allowed into the premises.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 19:28:00 +0000
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