Lagos APC denies plot to impose candidates ahead of elections

The Lagos State section of the All Progressives Congress has rejected claims of an alleged program to enforce candidates up of the forthcoming legislative elections, describing the accusations arsenic unfounded and aimed astatine creating unnecessary hostility wrong the party.

In a connection issued connected Thursday, the authorities chairman, Cornelius Ojelabi, dismissed the study credited to a radical identifying itself arsenic “concerned and vigilant members,” stating that it was a fabrication intended to mislead the nationalist and incite interior discord.

Ojelabi maintained that determination were nary concealed meetings oregon pre-arranged lists of candidates, stressing that the allegations were a deliberate effort to manufacture a situation wherever nary exists.

He further alleged that definite individuals, incapable to prosecute their ambitions done morganatic enactment channels, had resorted to propaganda and anonymous campaigns to discredit the party’s leadership.

According to him, specified tactics would not undermine the party’s structures oregon interfere with its antiauthoritarian processes.

The enactment besides expressed interest implicit what it described arsenic efforts by “fifth columnists” to destabilise the governmental environment, calling connected the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, information agencies, and different stakeholders to instrumentality enactment of attempts to dispersed misinformation.

Reaffirming its stance, the Lagos APC stated that it would strictly comply with the ...