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Sunday, August 14, 2022
Ifagbemi Awamaridi, Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour and Peter Obi
Labour Celebration chairman Ifagbemi Awamaridi says he has not withdrawn his candidature however stays the celebration’s 2023 governorship candidate in Lagos.
Mr Awamaridi acknowledged this on Saturday at a media briefing to unveil Labour Celebration’s 10 cardinal programmes for Lagos.
The Labour Celebration on Wednesday carried out a substitution gubernatorial main election in Lagos wherein Gbadebo Rhodes-Vivour was declared its gubernatorial candidate for 2023.
Mr Rhodes-Vivour polled 111 votes to defeat Moshood Salvador, a former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), who acquired 102 votes.
INEC publication of non-public particulars of governorship candidates in Lagos nonetheless reveals Mr Awamaridi’s title because the Labour Celebration’s governorship candidate.
Mr Awamaridi insisted that the substitution main carried out by Labour Celebration’s deputy nationwide chairman Bashiru Apapa on Wednesday was unlawful and invalid as a result of he didn’t withdraw his candidature.
The candidate mentioned no substitution of candidates by the nationwide physique of the Labour Celebration to INEC may supersede the first carried out by the electoral physique.
“I name the substitution primaries carried out on Wednesday a comedy as a result of it was towards the brand new Electoral Act to substitute a candidate with out his withdrawal discover to the INEC. If it have been to be the substitution within the outdated Electoral Act, after conducting primaries, the celebration, in its knowledge, can change the candidate that received with out his or her consent,” Mr Awamaridi defined.
He additional acknowledged: “Then there’s all the time a window for substitution which is totally different from the window for withdrawal, and the window for substitution is the place you possibly can substitute with out withdrawal. “Nevertheless, the widow for withdrawal is totally different, however the brand new Electoral Act has nullified that as a result of this new act now says that upon getting carried out primaries supervised by INEC, you might be mechanically the candidate.”
Mr Awamaridi urged Labour Celebration candidate Peter Obi to urgently intervene within the disaster, rocking the celebration to enhance his possibilities within the forthcoming 2023 election in Lagos. The celebration can also be enduring a torrid time in Plateau over the alleged substitution of its governorship candidate.
(NAN)
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