Jimi Agbaje replies Musiliu Obanikoro Over Alleged ‘So-Called Excess Votes’

The governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr Jimi Agbaje has accused Senator Musiliu Obanikoro of being economical with truth on the “so-called excess votes” allegedly recorded in Monday’s party primaries.

Speaking via a statement by Mr Felix Oboagwina, his director of media and publicity, Agbaje said in the course of the PDP primaries, all the six aspirants agreed that there was a clerical omission in the originally announced tally of 806, as it had left out some ad hoc and statutory delegates from a few local governments and those should be reckoned and allowed to vote.
According to the statement, “Obanikoro and the other aspirants, together with their agents, were party to this agreement, In fact, Obanikoro left his seat, along with the others, when the chairman of the Electoral Committee, Senator Seidu Kumo, called attention to the clerical omission. There and then, they mandated the committee to add these omitted delegates to the total tally. The chairman of the committee felt no need to announce this new figure publicly, since all the contestants willingly endorsed the arrangement.”
Agbaje described the Lagos PDP primaries as free, fair and spotless, stating that the total of 58 omitted delegates was made up of: Ikeja ad hoc delegates -30; Ikeja statutory delegates -seven; Ojo statutory delegates -seven; Mushin Statutory Delegates -seven and Alimosho Statutory Delegates -seven.