LG Primaries: Lagos APC Appeal Committee receives over 100 petitions

The Appeal Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos State has received over 100 petitions from aggrieved aspirants for the local government chairmanship and councillorship positions.

The aggrieved aspirants of the party, spread across the 57 local councils in Lagos, are challenging the outcome of the primaries conducted by the party last Saturday that produced candidates for the chairmanship and councillorship seats for the upcoming July 12 local government elections.

Protests have trailed the results of the Chairmanship and Councillorship primaries elections since May 10 when the elections were conducted.

On Tuesday, hundreds of aggrieved APC members trooped out in Agege, Ikeja, Somolu, and other areas in Lagos to reject the results of the primaries, accusing some leaders of the party of imposing candidates.

The party had on Monday set up the appeal committee led by the Attorney General of Lagos State and Commissioner for Justice, Lawal Pedro (SAN), to look into the concerns of the aggrieved members.

It was gathered that the panel had received petitions from 45 chairmanship aspirants and 59 councillorship aspirants spread across the various local council areas.

The appeal panel had set 12 pm on Tuesday as the deadline for the submission of petitions by aggrieved aspirants.

Meanwhile, a civil society organisation, the United Action for Democracy, has demanded an investigation into the controversies trailing the conduct of the APC primaries.

The group warned that the 2027 general election was at stake given the developments stemming from the party’s recently conducted primaries in Lagos.

The UAD’s General Secretary, Kunle Ajayi, while addressing a press conference at Abule Egba, Lagos, on Wednesday, said the APC primary election was “an example of how the local government autonomy and democracy are being rubbished by the powers that be, denying the working people ample chances to participate in true governance.”