PDP accuses Jega of insincerity for retaining Osun REC

The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic
Party in Osun State, Alhaji Gani Olaoluwa,
has accused the Chairman of Independent
National Electoral Commissioner, Prof.
Atahiru Jega, of insincerity for retaining the
Resident Electoral Commissioner in the state,
Mr. Rufus Akeju, despite a court order
allegedly restraining him from doing so.
Olaoluwa said this in a statement made
available to journalists in Osogbo on
Saturday.
The PDP chairman said the refusal of the
INEC chairman to obey the court order
restraining him from retaining the REC.
The statement read, "Prof. Jega is not honest
about the issue of the resident electoral
officer in Osun as a Federal High Court has
restrained INEC from using Mr. Akeju. It
baffles the PDP what Akeju is still doing in
Osun State.
"Only yesterday (Thursday) , the All
Progressives Congress inaugurated one of its
offices beside INEC office along Ilobu Road.
How can a political office be situated beside
an INEC office. Is this right?
"We want Jega to tell us if what is happening
in Osun is right because he who comes to
equity must come with clean hands."
But the Chief Press Secretary to the INEC
chairman, Mr. Kayode Idowu, had recently
denied a similar allegation raised by Senator
Iyiola Omisore.
Idowu said in a statement that the allegation
leveled against Jega was not true.
The statement read, "True, in a ruling on
23rd March, 2011 by the Federal High Court
in Osogbo, Hon. Justice Babs Kuewumi gave
an interlocutory order of injunction
restraining INEC from recognising the REC,
pending the hearing and determination of the
originating summons in the suit. But the
commission's lawyers lodged an appeal and
filed a motion for stay of execution of the
interlocutory order."
"This appeal is still pending before the Court
of Appeal in Akure. Meanwhile, Hon. Justice
Babs Kuewumi, in another ruling on 31st
May, 2012, granted the application for stay
of proceedings pending the determination of
the appeal made by the Plaintiff - the
Peoples Democratic Party. The position of
the law as at today is that the order of
injunction granted by the lower court is in
abeyance pending the final determination of
the appeal."

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