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Supreme Court on Thursday morning dismissed the Ali Modu Sheriff-led Peoples Democratic Party candidate's interlocutory appeal challenging Court of Appeal ruling which affirmed Eyitayo Jegede as the party candidate for the Saturday's gubernatorial election.
Although highly burdened by the distraction of litigation that saw his name being removed from the candidates’ list of INEC before the Court judgement, Jegede, is a Senior Advocate and very popular candidate particularly among the people of Akure where he hails from.
Here are his strengths and weaknesses ahead of Saturday's guber poll:
1. He is expected to give a good showing in the central senatorial district especially with the incumbency factor of his godfather, Mimiko, who characteristically, had been deploying all the weapons in his arsenal to achieve victory.
2. Jegede’s relationship with Mimiko, who critics alleged was trying to get a third term through the back door, could be an albatross on the younger politician’s neck.
3. As an out-going governor that has less than three months to distribute patronage, what he did or did not do in office are now being held against him and many are extending the “wages of the sins” to Jegede, who, until recently had been avoiding politics like a plague.
3. He may garner large number of votes in the Central district but many electorates in the north and the south who are against Mimiko's administration may turned him down.
4. The long-drawn legal battle with Ibrahim has diminished his candidacy and popularity has some of his supporters have already pitched their tent with either of the two camps of Olusola Oke and Rotimi Akeredolu.
5. Jegede has few hours more to cover lost grounds and stay back on top of the game.
- Culled from TheGuardian
Although highly burdened by the distraction of litigation that saw his name being removed from the candidates’ list of INEC before the Court judgement, Jegede, is a Senior Advocate and very popular candidate particularly among the people of Akure where he hails from.
Here are his strengths and weaknesses ahead of Saturday's guber poll:
1. He is expected to give a good showing in the central senatorial district especially with the incumbency factor of his godfather, Mimiko, who characteristically, had been deploying all the weapons in his arsenal to achieve victory.
2. Jegede’s relationship with Mimiko, who critics alleged was trying to get a third term through the back door, could be an albatross on the younger politician’s neck.
3. As an out-going governor that has less than three months to distribute patronage, what he did or did not do in office are now being held against him and many are extending the “wages of the sins” to Jegede, who, until recently had been avoiding politics like a plague.
3. He may garner large number of votes in the Central district but many electorates in the north and the south who are against Mimiko's administration may turned him down.
4. The long-drawn legal battle with Ibrahim has diminished his candidacy and popularity has some of his supporters have already pitched their tent with either of the two camps of Olusola Oke and Rotimi Akeredolu.
5. Jegede has few hours more to cover lost grounds and stay back on top of the game.
- Culled from TheGuardian
