As Aspirants, Members Protest Alleged Imposition of Candidates
- Safiu Kehinde
The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has set up an Appeal Committee to hear complaints arising from party’s primary elections conducted on Saturday.
This was disclosed on Monday by the party’s State Publicity Secretary, Mr Seye Oladejo.
NPO Reported that the party had on Saturday conducted its chairmanship and councillorship primaries to select candidates for the July 12 Local Government election in the state.
While the primaries produced 55 out the 57 expected APC chairmanship candidates, some of the results were, however, rejected by some aspirants over alleged imposition.
This resulted in protests by aggrieved party members in some council areas.
According to Oladejo, the complainants are to submit their appeals to the committee led by Mr Lawal Pedro, SAN, the Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State with Chief Abiodun Olufowobi as its Secretary.
He said that other committee members included Mr Jokotola Pelumi, a former Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mr Lanre Ogunyemi, a former member of the House of Assembly and State Secretary of the party as well as Chief Chukwudi Adiukwu.
“We hereby advise discontented aspirants to submit their appeals to the committee not later than 12p.m. on Tuesday 13th May, 2025,” the APC spokesman said.