Ogun LG Polls: NNPP Challenges Outcome Says Abiodun Murders Democracy, Human Rights

 

Abeokuta-The New Nigeria People’s Party (NNPP) in Ogun state on Tuesday accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of murdering democracy and fundamental rights of the people in the just concluded Local government elections.

The party also threatened to drag the APC to court over what it described as “pre election and post election open stealing by Abiodun-led APC”. 

The accusation came days after the state held it Chairmanship and Ward elections on Saturday July 24, 2021. 

The Chairman of the party,  Sunday Olaposi Ogini during a Press conference at the party’s Secretariat in Abeokuta, the state capital on Tuesday argued that the APC had no legal framework to present candidates for elections since it’s committee had been disolved since 2020.

Ogini recalled that in 2020, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the APC dissolved its executives in Ogun and the party has, since been under caretaker committee, hence, has no legal framework to participate in the elections.

His words “Our point is that APC has no capacity, legality and the frameworks to present candidate at the Local government elections.

“On December 8th, 2020, the NEC of APC dissolved Ogun APC Executives and since then they have appointed only three-man caretaker committee to take care of the affairs of the party in the interim and up till today they haven’t corrected the abnormality. 

Ogini also accused the APC of stealing the mandates of the candidates who contested on the platform of the NNPP during the elections, insisting that the act of the ruling party was fraudulent. 

According to him, the NNPP won in some of the local governments of the state but the APC frauded the outcome.

The Chairman equally stressed that none of the APC candidates was qualify for the elections. 

He said “We have approached the court because we know that there’s no candidate of APC that stands the test of time as far as the constitution of Nigeria and that of Electoral act is concerned.

We have instituted 20 different suits, local government by local government to correct the abnormal.

“Our point is that APC has no capacity, legality and the frameworks to present candidate at the Local government elections. 
The Chairman boasted that his party was ready to take back all the 20 local governments in state after court’s intervention.