LG POLL: APC group tackles party over guidelines, screening
A group in the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Lagos State, Lagos4Lagos Movement, yesterday, faulted the guidelines released by the party for its members seeking to contest the July 24 local council election in the state. Addressing newsmen at the party’s secretariat in Ikeja, the Principal Coordinator of the movement, Olabode Makinde, said: “Section 221 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the amended 2010 Electoral Act stipulate that the process to get political power, through legitimate and democratic means, must be done fairly and justifiably. It is only proper, therefore, for the process to be executed in an impartial way that will bring out the best among our aspirants. “It is disturbing that the current position of the party, especially regarding fees for the nomination forms as well as the screening procedure appears to be a deliberate move to disenfranchise a majority of the interested candidates in favour of the incumbents and the anointed.” Agemowo...