In Lagos, a governorship aspirant under the auspices of the All Progressives congress (APC) Oluwo Olawale Wasiu has frowned at the conduct of the APC guber primaries held in the state on Thursday, describing it as a charade.
Wasiu said that the delegates used for the elections were handpicked by a faction of the party in Lagos after organizing a sham delegate congress in the state.
He added that those genuine party members who bought delegate forms were ignored by the faction in the Lagos APC.
Wasiu accused one pastor Cornelius Ojelabi as a complicit in the exercise ,while describing it as a rape of Lagos APC.
The guber aspirant also accused the screening committee of negligence of duty by not publishing the names of screened aspirants in the party. He added that many aspirants who were disqualified were not reached out to as stipulated by the party’s constitution.
Wasiu added that many have been disqualified without them knowing about it because nobody reached out to them. He further revealed that these aspirants can not appeal their case as a result of not being told thereby depriving them of fair hearing.
Speaking at a press conference in Lagos the guber aspirant posited that his emergence on the scene got some persons within the party shivering because of his “New Agenda Mantra’ that he’s been preaching.
He said ”It’s very clear that my candidacy in this 2022 APC primary elections has generated massive positive excitements from party members and Lagosians generally .It has also created a big discomfort for people who are afraid of new agenda and accountability in governance. Those discomforted individuals have even gone ahead to prevent me from participating in the Lagos guber primary election.
”I implore my teeming fans to remain calm and law abiding,despite the provocations.We will continue to seek redress from the internal dispute resoutions mechanisms of the party, without foreclosing the enforcement of our rights to seek justice in the court of Law”
TheNewsGuru.com reports that the Lagos state governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has won the APC guber ticket ahead of the forthcoming general elections in 2023.