ONDO 2016: SHERIFF PDP FACTION MOVES GOVERNORSHIP PRIMARY TO IBADAN

The Ali Modu Sheriff faction of the Peoples Democratic Party is set to hold its primaries for the Ondo State governorship election on Monday.

Rather than hold the primary in Ondo, it is scheduled to hold at the zonal headquarters of the party in Ibadan, Oyo State.

The move, PREMIUM TIMES gathered, followed the inability of the faction to get the state executive committee of the party to host the event. The state governor, Olusegun Mimiko, belongs to the rival Ahmed Makarfi faction of the PDP.

"The National Working Committee of the party has taken over the organisation off the primary and it will now hold in Ibadan," spokesman of the faction, Yemi Akintomide, said on Sunday.

"It was the decision of the committee on the Ondo State governorship primary headed by Ahmed Gulak that the primary be moved to Ibadan, the zonal headquarters of the party."