Lagos PDP Primaries - Obanikoro Petitions PDP Electoral Appeal Panel

Indications have emerged that a governorship aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, has petitioned the PDP Electoral Appeal Panel, demanding for another governorship primaries to be conducted.

Vanguard gathered that the petition which was addressed to the chairman of the panel, claimed that the exercise was characterised by over voting, hence the call for the results to be voided. The petition reads: "I, Senator Musiliu Olatunde Obanikoro, a gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party ,PDP, in Lagos State, having taken notice of irregularities in the conduct of primary election conducted on December 8, 2014, and declaration of result of same, do hereby petition your panel as follows:

That the accreditation of delegates for the election started at about 6:45pm, contrary to section 19 sub section (d) of the Peoples Democratic Party Election Guidelines, which provides that accreditation shall be between 8am and 12noon.

The foregoing is a major flaw, which indeed disenfranchised many delegates who left the venue frustrated particularly when violence broke out. "Having established that there was over-voting, the election is vitiated and should be voided."