PDP Primaries: Police Retrieved Guns, Ammunition From Agbaje, Bode Georges Thug - Obanikoro A former Minister of State for Defence, Musiliu Obanikoro, has accused a leader of the Peoples Democratic Party in Lagos State, Chief Olabode George, and the governorship candidate of the party in the state, Mr. Jimi Agbaje, of recruiting armed thugs to achieve their aims at the governorship primaries held on December 8, Punch has reported. The former minister said “I also saw the police recovered five guns and rounds of ammunition and live cartridges from the thugs brought by Chief Olabode George and Mr. Jimi Agbaje, a co- aspirant.” This is contained in an affidavit which he filed before a Federal High Court in Abuja in support of his suit numbered, FHC/ABJ/CS/994/2014, challenging the conduct of the December 8, 2014 governorship primaries in which Agbaje was declared winner. Obanikoro with 343 votes came second behind Agbaje who polled 432 votes to clinch the party’s ticket. Three other candidates participated in the poll. But the former minster is, through his suit filed on December 15, 2014, urging the court to nullify the primaries and order a fresh one to be conducted on the grounds of alleged electoral irregularities that marred the December 8, 2014 exercise such as over-voting, intimidation of his delegates by thugs loyal to George and Agbaje, as well as improper accreditation of delegates. He said there were 806 delegates accredited for the primaries but “surprisingly from the 806 accredited delegates; the electoral officers returned a total number of 866 votes.” He added that the accreditation of delegates which ought to last between 8am and 12noon as stipulated by the Electoral Guidelines published by the PDP, did not start until as late as 6.30pm.
Posted on: Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:07:23 +0000
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