Factional gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State, Eyitayo Jegede, SAN, has said that no interference with the administration of justice will stop him from contesting the governorship election in the state.
In a statement titled ‘The will of God and the Desire of the People Cannot be Subverted’, which he personally signed, Jegede said the recognition of Jimoh Ibrahim as PDP candidate by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, cannot stop him from contesting.
Jegede noted that it was clear that “some anti-democratic elements were poised to subvert his mandate.”
Jegede said he had confidence in the courts and believed justice would be done.
“We are not unaware of the fact that the anti-democratic elements and their allies in the system have mapped out series of surreptitious tactics to subvert our mandate, and interfere with the course of administration of justice, with the latest of such being a baseless petition against the justices of the special panel set up by the President of the Court of Appeal, to blackmail them to washing off their hands from the case before them.
“No matter the act of blackmail, I have absolute confidence in the judiciary as the last hope and bastion of our democratic process,” he said.
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