PDP issues 21-day ultimatum to Ambode, LASIEC over council polls

Lagos state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Monday issued the Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission (LASIEC), a 21-day ultimatum over council polls in the state.

It demanded that the electoral body must publish notice and guidelines for the polls, adding that failure to do this, the party will “educate Lagosians to consider their dealings with the councils, as continual dealings would amount to participating in the lawlessness, brigandage and treason in our constitutional democracy.”

The party accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) -led government in the state of deliberately delaying council polls since October 2014, as a plot to mismanage the councils

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PDP Lagos publicity secretary, Taofik Gani, said the state executive and the House of Assembly collaborated in the act.

The statement read that “The continual running of the councils by nomenclature of executive secretaries and now sole Administrators is alien and unintended by the constitution. The operation is contrary to sections 1(2) 1(3) and 7(1) of the 1999 Constitution.

“According to section 1(2), the Federal Republic of Nigeria shall not be governed, nor shall any person or group of persons take control of the government of Nigeria or any part thereof, except in accordance with the provisions of this constitution.

“Relevant enforcement agencies should thus now arrest all the members of the House of Assembly, the Sole Administrators for aiding and abetting the treason. We also want the EFCC to probe the tenure of the sacked executive secretaries,” Gani said.

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