Agbaje’s victory were dubious, we can’t congratulate him — APC

The Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress
says it will not congratulate the governorship candidate
of the Peoples Democratic Party, Mr. Jimi Agbaje,
because the events that led to his victory were allegedly
dubious.
The publicity secretary of the party, Mr. Joe Igbokwe,
said the PDP was a party of hypocrites because they
were doing the same thing they had accused the APC of
doing in the past.
The APC wondered how the number of votes could
exceed the number of delegates that voted at the
primary on Monday.
The APC said it was unfortunate that the PDP could not
properly conduct a primary of less than 1,000 delegates
when it (APC) successfully conducted a primary that had
over 5,000 delegates in attendance last week.
It said the PDP had shown that it was not democratic as
it went ahead to impose Agbaje despite the fact that
another aspirant, 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 receive
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
Wednesday (today)