Partisanship: Atiku seeks removal of Lagos REC
THE presidential candidate of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to remove the Lagos State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, Olusegun Agbaje, for his partisanship and compromise. His Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, in a statement issued in Abuja yesterday. said it was curious that Agbaje had insisted on using the Lagos State Park and Garage Management Committee, led by transport kingpin, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, who is a member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council. Shaibu dismissed Agbaje’s excuse that INEC would not be able to use the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, and the Road Transport Employees Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, because they had been barred in Lagos State.“ He said: “The law is clear that only a court has the power to proscribe an organisation. That was why the Federal Government had to go to court to proscri...