Former Minister of State for Defence and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship aspirant in Lagos state; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro has petitioned the leadership of the party, urging it to declare the victory of Olujimi Agbaje at the governorship primaries, as null and void.

He submitted that the election won by Agbaje violated the constitution of the party.

In the petition addressed to the Chairman, Gubernatorial Electoral Appeal Panel, Obanikoro pointed out that accreditation of delegates for the election started at about 6:45pm contrary to section 19 sub section (d) of the PDP Election Guidelines which provided that accreditation shall be between 8am and 12noon. He argued that many delegates left the venue frustrated and were thus disenfranchised.

Senator Obanikoro added that the number of vote cast was more than the accredited delegates.

The petition reads in part, “That at the conclusion of accreditation, the total number of delegates who were eligible to vote was 806 (eight hundred and six). And this figure was announced loudly to the hearing of all that were present in the hall, thereby complying with Section 19 Subsection (e) of the PDP Electoral Guidelines. That at the conclusion of voting the total number of votes cast was 863 (eight hundred and sixty three) which established over voting.”

He argued that this is contrary to Section 19 Subsection (m) of the PDP Electoral Guidelines which stipulates that “no delegate shall vote for more than one aspirant and were the votes exceed the number of accredited delegates to such an extent as to materially affect the result of the election, the election shall be declared void by the State Electoral Panel and another Vote shall be conducted by the State Electoral Panel.”