The All Progressives Congress (APC) Lagos State chapter has said it will not congratulate the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Jimi Agbaje because the events that led to his victory were reportedly shady.
Mr. Joe Igbokwe, the publicity secretary of the party, said PDP was a party of hypocrites because they were doing the same thing they had accused the APC of doing in the past.
APC wondered how the number of votes could exceed the number of delegates that voted at the primary on Monday.
Punch Newspaper reports that the party said it was quite sad that PDP could not properly conduct a primary election of less than 1,000 delegates when they successfully conducted a primary that had over 5,000 delegates in attendance.
APC has said PDP had shown that it was not democratic as it went ahead to appoint Agbaje despite the fact that Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, had been making allegations about the plan for over a month.
The APC said, “We cannot congratulate Agbaje yet because there is still infighting. The circumstances that led to the emergence of Agbaje were illegitimate and as a democratic party we will not encourage such by congratulating him.
“You see how clear it was with our candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. The body language of the PDP leaders had shown that they were supporting Agbaje and they went ahead to perpetrate fraud just as Obanikoro had predicted.”
When asked if the APC would be willing to take Obanikoro if he defected from the PDP, the party said, “Obanikoro knows the best step that will favour him. If he feels his 10 years away from our party is regretful, he is free to return, we cannot reject him.”
In a later statement, the party also welcomed the over 8,000 delegates from all over the country that would participate in the presidential primary of the party on today.
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