APC members protest at Lagos Secretariat, demand cancellation of primary results

Scores of members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Tuesday staged a protestation astatine the party’s Lagos State Secretariat successful Ikeja, demanding the cancellation of superior predetermination results successful respective constituencies implicit alleged irregularities.

The demonstrators, drawn from assorted constituencies including Amuwo-Odofin Federal Constituency, Amuwo-Odofin Constituency II, Ajeromi-Ifelodun Federal Constituency, Oshodi-Isolo Constituency I and Somolu Constituency II, urged the enactment enactment to analyse complaints arising from the precocious concluded House of Representatives and Lagos State House of Assembly primaries.

The APC conducted its legislative primaries successful May and subsequently announced the names of palmy candidates. However, immoderate aspirants and enactment members person continued to situation the outcomes, insisting that the published results did not bespeak the decisions made by enactment members during the nonstop superior elections.

The protesters called connected the party’s enactment and applicable entreaty panels to reappraisal the behaviour of the elections and code what they described arsenic wide procedural breaches.

One of the petitions was submitted by House of Representatives aspirant for Amuwo-Odofin Federal Constituency, Mr Ayodele Adewale, who challenged the result of the superior predetermination successful the constituency.

Adewale alleged that the workout crossed the constituency’s 11 wa...