PDP Withdraws from Ondo LG poll 48hrs to election

Barely 48 hours to the Saturday local government election in Ondo State, theopposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has withdrawn from the exercise.

The Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission (ODIEC) had scheduled this Saturday for the council election, with no fewer than 10 political parties participating in the upcoming exercise.

Bakita Bello, the acting chairman of the party in the state, announced the decision of the PDP to boycott the poll on Thursday.

Bello, who spoke to journalists in Akure, explained that the party had lost confidence in the electoral body in conducting a free and fair election by Saturday.

“It’s our decision to announce that we (PDP) has decided not to participate in the local government election. We have also informed ODIEC in writing about this development,” Bello said.

Earlier in a statement, the spokesman for the PDP, Leye Igbabo, revealed that the electoral body had failed “integrity test.”

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He noted that the party consulted with the leaders, stakeholders, and its national secretariat before boycotting the election.