Party Calls For Outright Cancellation Of Lagos State LGA Elections

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Photo of stuffed ballot box by LASIEC electoral officers for ACN
By Chief Udoka Udeogaranya

 African Renaissance Party (ARP) Lagos State chapter expresses in deepest term our total rejection of the Local council elections as conducted by the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) and we demand an outright cancellation.

The conduct of the local council election by LASIEC was a display of fraud and systemic rigging in favour of ACN. This fraudulent conduct will go down as the worst election in the history of this country by any standard.

To begin with, my chairmanship candidate for Eti-Osa LGA could not vote and 90 percent of our supporters could not vote and even a commissioner of this state, who came to exercise his civic right, and to his embarrassment as to many others, could not vote, because LASIEC had moved most polling booths away from their traditional stations to some obscure places where the eligible voters could not locate them and there the LASIEC ad-hoc staffs, were busy stuffing the ballot boxes in favour of ACN.

It was a horrible display to see LASIEC ad-hoc staffs in concert with ACN members, who took the opportunity of the voters apathy in many of the polling booths, offering bribes to party agents at the closing of the polls as they plead to thumb prints the ballot papers for the ACN.

While we are totally disappointed by the conduct of this election by LASIEC, ARP would like to express their gratitude to our party agents and some good citizens, who reported these dastardly acts of LASIEC in connivance with ACN members of which resulted to the arrest of some of the LASIEC electoral officers.

We now challenge the state governor, to march his words with actions, as that will give an absolute conviction that this local council elections conducted by LASIEC was marred horribly with electoral mal-practices and nothing but outright cancellation and an immediate dissolution of LASIEC would be acceptable.


Chief Udoka Udeogaranya
Chairman

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MR JOE IGBOKWE CAN YOU

MR JOE IGBOKWE CAN YOU SINCERELY SWEAR WITH YOUR LIFE THAT YOUR ACN DID NOT RIGGED THE LAST ELECTION, THE FACT THAT FASHOLA SAID NOBODY SHOULD RIG THE ELECTION DOES NOT MEAN YOUR ACN DID NOT SUPPORT ELECTORAL ROBBERY, CAN YOU TELL US WHY THE ORIGINAL RESULT DECLARED IN BADAGRY IN FAVOUR OF PDP WHICH WAS SHOWN ON THE STATE TELEVISION{LTV}, AND ALSO ANNOUNCED ON CHOICE FM WAS LATER ANNOUNCED FROM AN ACN ORDAINED OFFICE CALL LASEIC OFFICE, I AM NOT A POLITICIAN BUT I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ACN IS NOT IN ANYWAY BETTER THAN PDP, INFACT YOUR OWN CASE IS EVEN WORST THAN THEIRS. I KNOW BEFORE 2015 THE GADAFI KIND OF JUDGEMENT WILL COME UPON ALL OF YOU WHO ARE BECAUSE OF SELFISH INTEREST ENSLAVING US IN THIS COUNTRY, BEFORE 2015 MY GOD WILL DO SOMETHING ABOUT ALL OF YOU WHO ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THE VICTORY OF YOUR PARTIES TO THE DETRIMENT OF NIGERIANS IN JESUS NAME.

PDP should be magnanimous in defeat

PDP is the architect of their own downfall. How can a party copiously ignore the Yorubas in federal appointments and the development of Lagos State infrastructurally and hope to win any election in the state? You dont win elections by coercion at least in Lagos. The Yoruba people and residents of Lagos State are highly informed politically and can only reward good performance. Although I am not a beneficiary of any position in Lagos, I salute the courage of Fashola and his team for his vision to work for the people.

Asiwaju party of nigeria(ACN)

I dont just undastand u, u r bn deceived by ACN in wot way is ACN beta dan PDP. R ACN saint dan any oda party in Nigeria.

No deceit anywhere

Saint, are you suggesting, it is only election won by PDP that is FREE? Ibrahim Obanikoro's father was once an LG chairman of the same council that his son plans to govern and he didn't do anything, like father like son. Also let me tell you PDP were busy rigging with connivance of Police just that ACN knew it and decided to announce the right results or their own version of rigged election. I dont like both parties but ACN is the lesser of the two evil. I agree with you that service is at all time low but robery have reduced in Lagos.

PDP won at least 4 local govt

PDP won at least 4 local govt on saturday.tinubu was informed later same day and he ordered that the results be changed even with video evidence already declared candidates such as in badagry. We have always told those retarded followers of a confirmed criminal like tinubu that they will only wake up when the state is compltely fully mortgaged by tinubu and his criminal cohorts

Mr Chairman are you

Mr Chairman are you suggesting that your party won and your mandate stolen? Lagos ACN does not support electoral robbery and if anyboby was caught trying to help ACN to win an election we are destined to win without hassles that ugly person should be prosecuted. Gov Fashola warned all Lagosians on this on Saturday and l believe you heard him very well. it difficut to rig election in a civilized city like lagos without being caught

Solaside, you are being deceived!

Solaside, you voted for ACN to shut out PDP and continued in same miss-governance. If I may ask you; what is the difference between ACN and PDP in terms of developing infrastructures and enriching themselves. Take a walk round the whole Lagos State and you will see poverty and worst state of road network. I don't even know if Ikorodu have local government chairmen since over 12years ACN has been in charge of Lagos state. Just know that our political leaders are same – they are all corrupt and wicked irrespective of their party affiliations. ACN is not better in PDP and vice versa. So, do not be deceived by their party slogans!

Lagos so called election

Mr.Chairman , there is no need to cry since you have decided to take part in illegility called election to give it seeming legimacy.We warned you that no legality can come out of illegality.
Hon.Bari Adedeji Salau

Solaside, you are being deceived!

Solaside, you voted for ACN to shut out PDP and continued in same miss-governance. If I may ask you; what is the difference between ACN and PDP in terms of developing infrastructures and enriching themselves. Take a walk round the whole Lagos State and you will see poverty and worst state of road network. I don't even know if Ikorodu have local government chairmen since over 12years ACN has been in charge of Lagos state. Just know that our political leaders are same – they are all corrupt and wicked irrespective of their party affiliations. ACN is not better in PDP and vice versa. So, do not be deceived by their party slogans!

Tinubu's Selection usual! (Asiwaju Company of Nigeria)ACN

Tinubu"s Selection usual! i cant laugh o. ACN* always think we are fools here in Lagos, they should continue with their pretense but I am sure Yorubas are not fools and we shall chase ACN away in 2015 with over vote if they fail to perform with this 4yrs around us. Ibikunle Amosu, Kayode Fayewon or Fayemi, Ajimobi and Fashola etc. We are watching ACN closely and we shall disappoint you all plus the oga Tinubu himself who is busy imposing his boys all over

FOOLS RULING IDIOTS

It take a band of fools to be ruled by idiots. Some fools will vote for ACN even if the local government chairmen performances had been a disaster. Go round lagos state and see for yourselves. it indeed takes fools to be ruled by idiots.

Cancel WHAT?

I am not partisan but I voted ACN as well as many others just to shut out PDP from Lagos. Yes issues in a few places and units or LGA polls could be cancelled but not everywhere. I once lived at Alusa where I registered and voted in the April one, but now moved to Ojodu. I treked back to Alusa just to go and vote for ACN and many more did same with some paying even more than I do. If investigation confirmed what you said then they can cancel your polling unit or even entire ward but dont call for outright cancellation.

circumstancial fallacy!!

cancellation of the election because of what happened in a local government is a taboo, not to talk about dissolution of LASIEC.

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