The Lagos State chapter of teh Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP has condemned the
selection and confirmation of the new four
member-commissioners of Lagos State
Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC. This is
contained in a release issued and signed by the
state PDP Publicity Secretary, Taofik Gani.
According to Gani, the party berated Governor
Akinwunmi Ambode and the State House of
Assembly for what it described as “nakedly
neglecting due process and flouting the state
electoral laws which prohibits members of
political parties from being part of LASIEC
composition”. The PDP claimed that the particular
inclusion of Lateef Raji as LASIEC commissioner to
conduct council polls in the state, which is coming
shortly, was an unequivocal resolve by the
governor to rig the polls in favour of his party,
the All Progressives Congress, APC. He said:
“Lateef Raji has always been a card carrying
member of parties. From AD, which he acted as
chairman during the factionalisation, to being a
member of AC; ACN and now APC. He just served
as Special Assistant to former governor Fashola.
He presently has his posters and banners in Lagos
and Ondo to contest the Ondo governorship
election.
He is thus unfit and improper to act as umpire in
a contest which APC will contest in” According to
the PDP, the continuous retention of Justice Fatai
Adeyinka (rtd) as LASIEC chairman and the
confirmation of Raji as LASIEC commissioner were
said to be anti democratic, despotic and
desperation on the part of the APC and Ambode
to control all the councils in the state. He
therefore called for the removal of Adeyinka and
Raji in order to give room for a free and credible
poll, adding that their continued stay in those
positions violates the right of Lagosians for a
credible poll and is fraudulent.
“The purported
commissioner and the LASIEC chairman must be
removed to allow for reasonably fair polls. If they
are not removed, the APC can as well continue to
violate the political rights of Lagosians to vote for
their choice in a free and fair election. They
should continue in the illegal, unconstitutional and
fraudulent local councils now headed by
aberration executive secretaries”, Lagos PDP said.
The PDP opined that the coming council poll
would be far different from past council elections
as it would be marred by massive gross rigging
and imposition. Gani however enjoined the
Ambode-led APC government to prevent anarchy
in the state by doing the expedient and needful by
conducting a free, fair and credible council poll.
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