National Electoral Commission, INEC, to annul the recent election of
former Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, as the National
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, claiming that it was
not held in compliance with the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.
Oshiomhole emerged unopposed alongside 21 other unchallenged
prospective national officers, who were elected by affirmation vote at
the national convention of the party held last weekend in Abuja.
But the PDP is now calling on INEC to declare Oshiomhole and the
others' election void on the ground that they were not returned
through the ballot, stressing that the electoral umpire had declared
similar action null and void when it elected its officers through
voice vote in 2012.
Speaking during a courtesy visit by a delegation from his Kabba Bunu
community in Kogi State, the National Publicity Secretary, Kola
Ologbondiyan, said: "We want to recall that in 2012, we had a
convention which INEC declared a nullity because they said we did not
follow the rules."
He continued, "As we speak today, the coronation that the APC
conducted at the Eagle Square did not fit into any of our electoral
laws. And we, therefore, call on INEC to declare it null and void.
"All those who did not go through votes at the convention, all those
who were elected by voice votes, INEC must declare their elections
null and void because they did not go through the electoral laws."
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