National Conscience Party, NCP, on Tuesday alleged that Lagos State Independent Electoral Commission, LASIEC, was denying its candidates access to registration forms ahead of the July 22 Local Government Area election in Lagos State.
The party also alleged that the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, was dictating to the commission to impose hand-picked candidates on local governments in the state.
A press statement made available to DAILY POST by NCP National General Secretary, Ayodele Akele, claimed that LASIEC was using, “illegal guidelines” to ensure that its 77 candidates did not get registration forms.
The party complained that unlike the Independent National Electoral Commission, LASIEC did not make registration form available online where it could be printed and filled by party candidates.
The statement added: “NCP candidates were not given the electoral forms when the NCP Lagos State leadership requested for them, in effect, we have been ostracised along with millions of people that can never meet the conditions imposed by LASIEC.
“It is important to also inform that unlike LASIEC, INEC forms are available online free of charge for party candidates to download fill and submit with the supporting documents.
“In the case of LASIEC, the agency, in spite of billions of naira of public money at its disposal appropriated for the elections, it does not even have a website or serious email address. Why must INEC forms be free and LASIEC forms are not?”
The party also lamented that while July 22 fixed for the election draws closer, a suit it filed before the Lagos State High Court since May 12, 2017, to protest LASIEC’s undemocratic guidelines had not been heard, despite that, an affidavit of urgency was attached to it.
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