Lagos APC Members Drag Tinubu To Court Over Imposition Of Candidates

Some leaders of the All Progressives Congress have dragged a national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu, its National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, the Independent National Electoral Commission and two others to court alleging imposition of candidates in the just-concluded congresses of the party in Lagos State.

The plaintiffs, Mr. Akinniyi Akinsiju, Michael Ajayi and three others, filed the suit on behalf of members of the New Lagos Movement, a faction of the party.

In the suit filed at the Federal High Court, Lagos on Monday, the claimants alleged that the defendants imposed their cronies as against candidates who contested and won party offices in the ward, local and state congresses held in April.

Among other things, they demanded “an order nullifying and setting aside the results of the Local Government Congresses of the 4th defendant (APC) declared in Lagos State on the 12th day of April, 2014 as same do not represent the actual outcome of the electoral processes and are mere concoctions of the 1st defendant (Tinubu) by which he actually imposed his loyalists as party leaders.

“An order nullifying the results of the state congress of the 4th defendant declared in Lagos State on the 26th day of April, 2014 as same do not represent products of genuine electoral processes and are mere concoctions of the 1st defendant by which he actually imposed his loyalists as party leaders.

In their statement of claim filed by their counsel, Nurudeen Ogbara, the claimants listed several breaches allegedly committed by the defendants in Surulere Local Government Area of the state where Tinubu allegedly in connivance with  Femi Gbajabiamila, a member of the House of Representatives, declared false results and awarded offices to their stooges.