Former Minister of State for Defence and Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP, governorship aspirant in Lagos
state, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has petitioned the
leadership of the party, urging it to declare the victory of
Olujimi Agbaje at the governorship primaries, as null and
void.
He submitted that the election won by Agbaje violated the
constitution of the party.
In the petition addressed to the Chairman, Gubernatorial
Electoral Appeal Panel, Obanikoro pointed out that
accreditation of delegates for the election started at about
6:45pm contrary to section 19 sub section (d) of the PDP
Election Guidelines which provided that accreditation shall
be between 8am and 12noon. He argued that many
delegates left the venue frustrated and were thus
disenfranchised.
Senator Obanikoro added that the number of vote cast was
more than the accredited delegates.
The petition reads in part, “That at the conclusion of
accreditation, the total number of delegates who were
eligible to vote was 806 (eight hundred and six). And this
figure was announced loudly to the hearing of all that were
present in the hall, thereby complying with Section 19
Subsection (e) of the PDP Electoral Guidelines. That at the
conclusion of voting the total number of votes cast was 863
(eight hundred and sixty three) which established over
voting.”
He argued that this is contrary to Section 19 Subsection (m)
of the PDP Electoral Guidelines which stipulates that “no
delegate shall vote for more than one aspirant and were the
votes exceed the number of accredited delegates to such an
extent as to materially affect the result of the election, the
election shall be declared void by the State Electoral Panel
and another Vote shall be conducted by the State Electoral
Panel.”
Source: Vanguard
See copy of the petition below:
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