ONDO 2016 UPDATE: JUDGE HAS NULLIFIED THE PDP CONVENTION THAT PRODUCE AHMED MAKARFI AS NATIONAL CHAIRMAN

ONDO 2016 UPDATE: JUDGE HAS NULLIFIED THE PDP CONVENTION THAT PRODUCE AHMED MAKARFI AS  NATIONAL CHAIRMAN ......This means this faction can't produce Jegede as Ondo PDP candidate.

Justice Abang acted right on Ondo PDP gov criss - NJC. Justice Okon Abang has been cleared of any wrongdoing by the National Judicial Council, NJC, in the June 29 ruling where he endorsed a faction of the Peoples Democratic Party, led by Ali Modu Sheriff, as authentic. Recognition of Sheriff’s faction of PDP led to eventual substitution of Eyitayo Jegede’s name by INEC and replaced it with Jimoh Ibrahim. In separate letters to four different petitioners who had written against Mr. Abang, the Council said it found “no proof of misconduct against the Federal High Court judge. One of the petitioners, Ayodele Ibini, a factional secretary of the PDP from Ondo State, had asked the NJC to investigate the judge for alleged judicial misconduct in the June 29 ruling where Mr. Sheriff was recognised as authentic PDP chairman. They demanded investigations into alleged judicial misconduct by the judge. The council said it dismissed all four petitions for their failure to substantially prove any wrongdoing against Mr. Abang.

The petitioners alleged that Mr. Abang abused his official privileges in his decisions on the PDP Ondo State crisis. The NJC, however, said it found no record of misconduct or abuse of judicial powers in the decisions made by Mr. Abang regarding both judgements. Mr. Abang also nullified the national convention of the PDP that produced Ahmed Makarfi as leader. He said the decision of the PDP to embark on the convention, despite a court order from a Lagos High Court, amounted to impunity.