By our Correspondent.
Another governorship aspirant of the Taraba state chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Dr. Hilkiya Bubajoda Mafindi has dragged the party’s governorship candidate of the state, Kefas Agbu to a Federal high court sitting in Jalingo.
Dr. Hilkiya Bubajoda Mafindi, who approached the Federal High Court sitting in Jalingo, the state capital, said he is not comfortable with the way and manner the party’s gubernatorial primary was carried out in the state.
Our correspondent reports that apart from Dr. Bubajoda Mafindi, a lecturer with the state University, Prof. Jerome Nyameh, is also in court to challenge the credibility of the party’s candidate of Kefas Agbu.
In his writ of summon, which was on Thursday made available to our correspondent in Jalingo, Dr. Bubajoda Mafindi is pleading with the court to as a matter of urgency stop the party’s candidate from going about parading himself as the party’s governorship flag bearer for the state.
Wondering why Agbu, whom according to Dr. Bubajoda Mafindi did not purchased the party’s expression of interest and nomination forms should be declared winner of the said primary election, the need for the court to wade in by preventing him from hoist high the party’s governorship banner, he said has become necessary.
Another of his grouse, as noticed in his writ of summon, is that Agbu, as made known by him, was the state PDP chairman who according to him, presided over the screening of all the aspirants who jostled for different elective positions during the party’s primaries.
Dr. Bubajoda Mafindi who is insisting for justice, also clearly stated in his writ of summon that the PDP governorship candidate, did not participated in the governorship screening that took place in the neighbouring Bauchi state.
Dragged before the court along side with the candidate, are the party’s National secretariat and the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The duo of Mafindi and Nyameh whom our correspondent noticed are among the numerous aspirants that contested for the party’s governorship ticket during the primary, vowed not to relent on their oars pending when justice is dispensed to the right channel.
One of the aggrieved governorship aspirant, who was the former minister of Labour and Productivity, Senator Joel Danlami Ikenya, it would be recalled, that the outcome of the primary which he alleged did not want down with him, has decamped to the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP).
