{"id":82498,"date":"2023-02-13T20:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/lp-asks-inec-to-remove-lagos-rec-agbaje-before-elections"},"modified":"2023-02-13T20:27:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T19:27:13","slug":"lp-asks-inec-to-remove-lagos-rec-agbaje-before-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lp-asks-inec-to-remove-lagos-rec-agbaje-before-elections","title":{"rendered":"LP asks INEC to remove Lagos REC Agbaje before elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Labour Party, LP, has called for the removal of Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Lagos State.<\/p>\n

The party urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to do so before the general elections starting on February 25.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Kenneth Okonkwo made the demand in a Twitter post on Monday.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf Prof Mahmood Yakubu doesn\u2019t sack Olusegun Agbaje now, then Nigerians must realise that Prof Mahmood has decided to rig the election of 2023 in favour of APC,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n

Okonkwo accused Agbaje of referring to the people of South-East origin based in Lagos as immigrants in their country.<\/p>\n

He said the REC denied Igbos the collection of their Permanent Voter\u2019s Cards, PVCs, \u201cwhile foreigners from Niger Republic, Chad, etc were given PVCs and NINs in El-Rufai\u2019s Kaduna State\u201d.<\/p>\n

The Nollywood veteran stated that \u201cNigerians have lost confidence in any election that will be conducted by this ethnic and confused bigot\u201d.<\/p>\n

Okonkwo said Agbaje is \u201csuffering from impaired reasoning like the principal he is working for who has commanded his followers to snatch power at all costs\u201d.<\/p>\n

The LP chieftain further charged Nigerians to insist the right thing is done \u201cstarting with the firing of Olusegun Agbaje.\u201d<\/p>\n

The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar last week asked INEC to remove Agbaje.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Labour Party, LP, has called for the removal of Olusegun Agbaje, the Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Lagos State. The party urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to do so before the general elections starting on February 25. A spokesperson for Peter Obi Campaign Organisation, Kenneth Okonkwo made the demand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":82497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1570,2140,251,9798,5506,254],"class_list":["post-82498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-nigeria-2","tag-inec","tag-lagos-rec-agbaje","tag-lp","tag-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"\nLP asks INEC to remove Lagos REC Agbaje before elections - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/lp-asks-inec-to-remove-lagos-rec-agbaje-before-elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"LP asks INEC to remove Lagos REC Agbaje before elections\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press – Nigeria. 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