Party primaries: APC scribe denounce statement on LG poll candidates submitted to LASIEC

By Olasunkanmi Akoni

The All Progressives Congress, APC, Lagos State chapter has dismissed statement, purportedly, issued by the party secretariat that names submitted to Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, for both chairmanship and councillorship position could still be substituted a week to local government election according to the electoral law.

The purported statement also warned all the candidates given the LASIEC’s forms not to rejoice yet as some of them could still be changed following unresolved crisis rocking the party across the state.

In a release by the state’s APC Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, therefore, urged the public, especially the media to disregard the statement credited to his office, which he described as a “forgery and the figment of the imaginations of cowardly interests that want to sow mischief and crisis in the party.”

He said he never issued such statement and never got involved in any measure to undermine the integrity of the state party primaries as the statement alleged.

Igbokwe,  said that being a loyal party man, he would never have approved of the false statement that councillorship and Chairmanship candidates submitted by the party could still be changed as the false statement claimed.

He said he would never subscribe to such illicit actions as it runs contrary to the tenets of free and fair electoral process to which he is fully committed to.

He warned those that issued the tendentious statement and were cowardly to do so in their names that they would fail in their nefarious attempts to cause confusion and crisis in the party.

According him: “I read with utmost consternation, the statement allegedly issued by me warning candidates for the forthcoming councillorship and chairmanship election in Lagos and whose names have gone to LASIEC that they may be changed anytime. I wonder on what premise I could have issued such horrific statement given that I am a well known party man that abides by the party’s rules and regulations.

“Even as the cowards that hacked that issued that statement did not mention me in their statement, by issuing same in the name of State Publicity Secretary, they inferred that i issued such press statement which is false, deceitful, dangerous and reckless.

“I wonder why anybody that has any issue with the party’s primaries cannot muster enough courage to state same rather than hide under cowardly masks to issue false statement and crediting same to me. That proves that they are hideous characters who can adopt any foul means to achieve their evil intent. I denounce such tactics as it does not show  courageous and faithful party men. I believe that like in any contest, primaries are bound to throw up diverse reactions but I also believe the party has enough in-built mechanisms to tackle these challenges. Why some people will be hiding behind others to manufacture and trade bare lies to achieve their detestable purposes still confounds me.

“I therefore urge media, the general public, our loyal party men and supporters to disregard the false statement as i never emanated from me. I charge our party men and supporters to remain faithful with the party leadership as it strives to deepen our electoral success in Lagos and it tries to ensure that all shades of opinion within our party are given accommodation.

“I urge all Lagosians to continue to give the APC the solid support that has made it the impregnable fortress it has become, especially as it continues to bring unprecedented progress to Lagos. I urge total support to all our councillorship and chairmanship candidates in the forthcoming election as that remains the surest way to further the landmark progress Lagos has been recording under the APC”.

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