Lagos APC Kick Against Imposition Of Candidates

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Members of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, on Monday, demonstrated the alleged imposition of candidates on them by leaders of the party. The aggrieved members of the party stormed the office of the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Raji Fashola, in Alausa, Ikeja, expressing their anger over the development.

The protesters called for internal democracy in the party, stating categorically that they would no longer accept the imposition of candidates on them.

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They called on leaders of APC in Lagos State to make every elective positions open to all and warned that any form on consensus would be rejected.

Leader of the demonstrators, Niyi Akinsiju, said they “have endured the denial of majority’s aspirations in the interest of a few who consider themselves the custodians of our electoral rights and to whom our electoral decisions matter not.”

Speaking on the congresses held in the state, Akinsiju noted that “in the past few weeks, we have been complaining about the outcomes of our congresses which held between the 5th and the 26th days of April, 2014, that they were nothing but serial impositions by our leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, as he annulled genuine electoral results and planted his men in party offices.”

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They asked for the immediate reversal of the zoning declaration by the party leadership that the next governor of the state must come from Lagos East Senatorial District.

Reacting, the Commissioner of Environment, Tunji Bello, on behalf of the state governor, assured the protesters that the party would begin to ensure that primaries are held. He added that everybody would be given a level playing ground to contest elective positions in the party henceforth.

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