Senator Gbenga Ashafa’s plan to return back to the Senate suffered a
setback on Monday as 3,000 delegates who were supposed to return him
unopposed demanded N150 million to vote.
Ashafa was the sole
aspirant for the Lagos East Senatorial ticket. Despite being the sole
aspirant, the delegates must still cast their votes for him to emerge as
the candidate.
It was however drama at the Ikorodu Town Hall on
Monday as the 3,000 delegates refused to vote demanding that the senator
gives them N50,000 each, which amounted to N150 million before they
could cast their votes for him.
Ashafa, it was gathered, had
offered each delegate N5,000 to return him unopposed, but they refused,
demanding for N50,000 each. As the situation was getting more
embarrassing, the lawmaker was said to have added additional N25,000
each to the initial offer, making it N30,000, but the delegates stuck to
their guns.
The primary was immediately postponed as the parties
could not reach amicable agreement. The primary will now hold on Tuesday
at the Epe Local Government.
But, leaders of the All Progressive
Congress, APC, in the area came out with excuses that the primary was
postponed due to security issues arising from overwhelming turn out of
unaccredited delegates that stormed the venue of the primaries.
Lagos
state vice chairman of the APC, Mr Fuad Oki who announced the
postponement of the election, said the security personnel and the party
officials were overwhelmed by the large turnout of unaccredited party
faithful who thronged the venue of the primaries.
Oki who is also the chairman of election committee, added that Ashafa is the sole candidate of the APC in the district.
The APC chieftain however assured that the primaries would be held in Epe Local Government.
...pm news
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