APC Woos Obanikoro

Lagos state All Progressive Congress (APC) publicity secretary, Joe Igbokwe, has given a hint that the party will accept Senator Musiliu Obanikoro back into the party if he wish to rejoin them, Punch reports.

Publicity Secretary of Lagos APC, Joe Igbokwe

Obanikoro lost the Lagos state Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) gubernatorial primary election on Monday, but described the process as a “complete sham.”


Igbokwe said: “Obanikoro knows the best step that will favour him. If he feels his 10 years away from our party is regretful, he is free to return, we cannot reject him.”
He also gave reasons why the APC has refused to congratulate Mr. Jimi Agbaje for emerging as the PDP governorship candidate in Lagos.



According to him, the way and manner Agbaje emerged at the PDP primary is illegitimate, hence his party’s decision not to congratulate him.

He went on to said the PDP was a party of hypocrites because they were doing the same thing they had accused the APC of doing in the past, and wondered how the number of votes could exceed the number of delegates that voted at the party’s primary on Monday.

He accused the PDP of not being able to conduct a free, fair and credible primary election of less than 1,000 delegates when the APC, successfully conducted a primary of over 5,000 delegates last week without any rancour.

“We cannot congratulate Agbaje yet because there is still infighting. The circumstances that led to the emergence of Agbaje were illegitimate and as a democratic party we will not encourage such by congratulating him.

“You see how clear it was with our candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode. The body language of the PDP leaders had shown that they were supporting Agbaje and they went ahead to perpetrate fraud just as Obanikoro had predicted,”  he concluded.