Refrain from Litigation: Senate President Warns Ondo PDP

By Taiwo Adisa

Chief Olusola Oke, PDP Candidate

SENATE President, David Mark, has asked the candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) in the Ondo gubernatorial election to refrain from using litigations to distract the winner, Governor Olusegun Mimiko. Mark, who stated this in Quebec, Canada, where he was the leader of the Nigerian delegation to the 127th Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) meeting, said the result of the election had confirmed that the wishes of the Ondo people had prevailed.
He said Nigerian politicians must start embracing the democratic culture, where the power of the people, as expressed through the ballot, was seen as supreme.
Mark, who congratulated Mimiko on working hard to secure the victory, said he was proud Nigerians relegated sentiments to vote for performance in office.
In a similar vein, the Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Honourable Emeka Ihedioha, in an interview, said the result of the election in Ondo had shown that the people appreciated performance.
According to him, reports on the ground before the election had shown that Mimiko had worked hard for the people in his first tenure and that it was only good the people of Ondo rewarded him with a second term in office.
“Looking at the figures, I think it’s a true reflection of the wishes of the Ondo people and I think it was a free, fair and credible election and having spoken to few friends back home, my personal advice is that losers should not get into any form of litigation at all.
“Let’s not waste time and resources. They must all come together now and work with Mimiko for the benefit of Ondo State and the people of Ondo State,” Ihedioha said.
He also commended the people for voting freely, saying that though his party, the PDP, lost, he was happy that the electoral process was free and fair.
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