The All Progressives Congress (APC)in Lagos State has shied away from reports that its members were responsible for electoral violence during the March 18 election for Governor and State House of Representatives in the state, saying ‘to the contrary.
Recall that before the election, there were controversial statements on social media, mainly racially provocative comments between Yorubas and Igbos in Lagos.
Lagos State Parks Commission Chairman Musiliu Akinsanya aka MC Oluomo in a viral video threatened Igbos to stay indoors if they did not vote for the APC in the election.
On election day, one can watch videos of thugs snatching ballot boxes, threatening people who don’t vote for a particular party, and disrupting the voting process at various polling stations, among others. other electoral violations.
However, the ruling APC, which won the February 25 presidential election and the March 18 gubernatorial election in Lagos, claims that some are not satisfied with the results of the election being held. hold meetings on Twitter Space on how to disrupt the peace. governments. The party’s public secretary Seye Oladejo at a news conference held in Ikeja on Thursday to inform the media about the results of the March 18 state election for governor and lower house, said the opposition. claims the APC has threatened and intimidated voters to discredit the resulting election.
Oladejo said,
“On the contrary, our members were mostly the victims of intimidation and violence. Many are still in hospitals where doctors are battling to save their lives.
“The allegation of threat and intimidation of voters is a typical deployment of the strategy of the aggressor playing the victim. How else do we explain the case of Omatseye Iseli a.k.a Tee Mac, a Labor Party chieftain who went to a polling unit with wild dogs, boasted of his unlawful action, only to jump into the media space the following day to allege intimidation after it was glaring that his party lost woefully in the gubernatorial election?
“It is on record that, there are 13,325 polling units in Lagos State and there were reports of disturbances in about 130 or one percent of all the polling units. I think that is too infinitesimal for anyone to rely upon to say that the election was not free and fair. In other words, under no circumstance can we say this has invalidated the credibility of the elections.
“We also need to state that the false alarm that members of the APC perpetrated violence during the election cannot be substantiated. It is sheer falsehood.
“The party has loyalists, members, and sympathisers in all nooks and crannies of the state. It has no reason to embrace violence.”
