Labour Party Governorship Primary In Lagos Cancelled Due To Irregularities

The governorship primary of the Labour Party scheduled by the Lagos State Chapter of the party to pick a substitute for its governorship candidate for the state could not hold on Monday as one of the aspirants complained of irregularity in the delegates’ list and stormed out of the venue of the primary in annoyance.

The primary was between Hon. Moshood Salvador and Gbadebo Rhodes -Vivour was scheduled for Monday, because the state chairman of the party Comrade Olukayode Salako at a briefing held last week said the party was yet to pick a governorship candidate for the state.

His position therefore contradicted the submission of Hon. Salvador who had earlier said he had emerged the party candidate by purchasing  a substitution form from INEC  whereby he replaced the interim candidate Ifagbemi Awamaridi who the party fielded initially.

At the venue of the primary Salvador said he had reached agreement with Rhodes- Vivour to step down for him and he was surprised that getting to the venue of the primary Vivor insisted on contesting the primary and more so, the delegate list had been doctored.

Speaking on the development, Salvador said, when he got to the venue of the primary he discovered the list of delegates had been doctored and skewed to favour his opponent.

According to him, each of the aspirants were mandated to submit 100 names of delegates, but to his surprise 26 names among the delegates name he submitted was missing from the compiled list.

Salvador therefore called for cancellation of the primary and urged the party to fix another day when a free, fair and transparent primary would be conducted.