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  • LASIEC clears 12 parties for July 22 council polls

    LASIEC clears 12 parties for July 22 council polls

    Ahead of the July 22 council polls, the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC) says it has cleared 12 political parties out of the 23 registered for the elections.

    Mr Dapo Olatunde, LASIEC’s Director of Publicity, said in a statement that the cleared parties had met the commission’s requirements for the polls and also presented candidates for validation.

    Olatunde listed the parties as the All Progressives Congress (APC), Action Alliance (AA), Alliance for Democracy (AD), Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), People’s Democratic Party (PDP) and Accord Party.

    Others are Kowa Party, National Action Council (NAC) , People’s Democratic Movements (PDM) ,United Democratic Party (UDP)
    and United Progressive Party (UPP).

    He said the names of the validated candidates had been displayed at the commission’s headquarters for observation by party members and members of the public.

    Meanwhile, the commission has begun a three-day “Train -the-Trainer”course for its electoral officers across the 20 local government areas and 37 local council development areas.

    According to Olatunde, the training, facilitated by the International Foundation for Electoral System (IFES), was to equip ad-hoc staff engaged for the July 22 elections.

    IFES is a United States-based organisation committed to the deepening of democracy and international best standards in election management.

    The organization operates in more than 100 countries and is supported by USAID.

  • Senator Omo Agege defects to APC

    Senator Omo Agege defects to APC

    Senator Ovie Omo Agege the only Labour Party (LP) Senator in the Senate has defected to All Progressives Congress (APC).

    The Senator represents Delta Central Senatorial district.

     

  • Ogun LP sues OGSIEC over exclusion from LGs poll

    … LP is misrepresenting facts, we excluded nobody or party, says OGSIEC

    Ogun State chapter of the Labour Party (LP) has  instituted a court action against the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) for allegedly denying it recognition in the forthcoming Local Governments (LGs) elections slated for October 8.

    In the suit no: NI/215/2016 filed before a state High Court sitting in Abeokuta, LP seeking an order, restraining OGSIEC and its chairperson, Alhaja Risikat Ogunfemi from conducting the planned LGs  poll.

    Also joined in the suit are the Executive Governor of Ogun state and the Attorney – General and Commissioner of Justice, Ogun  State.

    The Acting State chairman of the party, Abayomi Arabambi, who disclosed this to reporters in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, during a press briefing.

    In the originating summons deposed to by LP’s Acting State Chairman,  Mr Abayomi Arabambi, Olaposi Oginni (State Secretary) and  Abdul-Sabur Aroyeun, they prayed the court to declare that the date for the collection and submission of political party Form CF 001 and CF 002 be extended in other to accommodate their candidates.

    LP also want the court to determine whether or not, by section 221 relevant sections of Ogun state and the Election Time Table, the forthcoming local government election slated for 8th October can validly hold without given form to all interested parties.

    But reacting, an OGSIEC Commissioner, Mr Mutiu Agboke, said they have documentary evidence to shows that the electoral body has not excluded any political party from participating in the scheduled LGs elections.

    According to Agboke, the Labour party has only given a misrepresentation of facts to the public.

    “We realised that there are internal issues within three political parties, Mega People’s Party, People’s Democratic Party and Labour Party.

    “The others have been able to resolve their issues except Labour. One Olufemi Arabambi and another Segun Oloyede came to collect election materials.

    “None came back except Arabambi who came for the guidelines after we were assured that they have resolved their issues.

    “Later, Oleyede came for the bio-data form proving to be the authentic Secretary and said that they have resolved.

    Both are on record at the Commission, we have both of them. One getting the guidelines and the other getting the bio-data.

    “But we have not seen Arabambi since then so we assumed that they have actually resolved their issues,” Agboke said.