Court order didn’t invalidate Ighodalo’s candidacy, says Edo PDP

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign organisation in Edo state says the judgment of the federal high court in Abuja nullifying the outcome of the party’s governorship primary is a “strange development”.

On Thursday, Inyang Ekwo, presiding judge, invalidated the PDP primary election that produced Asue Ighodalo as flagbearer for the forthcoming gubernatorial poll in Edo.

Ighodalo, a lawyer, had won the primary conducted on February 22.

In a statement, the Edo PDP campaign organisation said “the claim in question and the judgment which arose therefrom did not in any shape or form invalidate or even challenge the outcome of the party primaries which produced the candidate of the PDP for the forthcoming elections