Supreme Court Judgment: It is not yet dancing time for PDP – Ex- Rivers lawmaker, Kwanee

Former Deputy Speaker of the Rivers State House
of Assembly, Leyi Kwanee has said the Supreme
Court Judgement in favour of Senator Ahmed
Markafi on the leadership tussle in the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP is not worth celebrating.
Kwanee in an interview with newsmen in Port
Harcourt said the judgement has no effect on the
fortunes of the All Progressives Congress, APC.
He said it will take a long time for Nigerians to
recover from the damage of the PDP on the
country’s economy.
The former lawmaker who represented Khana in
the seventh Rivers state House of Assembly also
said the PDP has continued it perceived abysmal
performance in Rivers state.
“PDP is in a state of comatose. It is cancerous
and it does not have the ability to take any
serious minded politician into victory.
“The judgement of the Supreme Court goes to no
issue. It does not deplete the political fortunes of
the APC in any way both in Rivers state and at the
centre.
“When somebody has a terminal ailment and you
give him a little shot of an injection it gives a
temporal relieve. The Judgment is just like
temporal relieve because it has not taken away
the cancer in the PDP.
“It is not yet dancing time for the PDP and i will
advice them not to roll out the drums,” he said.

How PDP’s Adeleke won Osun West bye-election

Iwo (Osun)- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Sunday announced Mr Ademola Adeleke of the PDP as the winner of the Osun West Senatorial bye-election.

The election was held in 10 local government areas making up the district.

The winner, who is the younger brother of the late Sen. Isiaka Adeleke, had 97, 480 votes to defeat a former senator, Mudashiru Hussein of the APC, who had 66, 116 votes,

Announcing the result in Iwo, the Osun West Senatorial headquarters, Mr Baritor Kpagih, INEC Residential Electoral Commissioner for the bye-election, said Adeleke won nine out of the 10 local government areas where the election was held.

He consequently returned Adeleke as senator to complete the tenure of the late Adeleke who died on April 23.

He gave the breakdown of the election result as follows:

Iwo Local Government: APC-12,205 PDP-12,547

Olaoluwa Local Government: APC 5,316 PDP 5,618

Ayedire Local Government: APC 5,360 PDP 5,789

Ejigbo Local Government: APC 12,229 PDP 9,723

Irewole Local Government: APC 8,952 PDP 9,096

Ede North Local Government: APC 2,784 PDP 18,559

Ede South Local Government: APC 2,096 PDP 13,406

Ayedaade Local Government: APC 7179 PDP 9,061

Egbedore Local Government: APC 4,768 PDP 7,142

Isokan Local Government: APC 5227 PDP 6,539

Adeleke would represent the senatorial district till 2019 when another election would be conducted.

Although 12 political parties contested in the bye- election, the two major contenders were the PDP and APC. (NAN)