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It seems APC has just shot itself in the foot by choosing to tread on a path that even INEC, with all its boldness, would not dare to walk.

Too much of everything, they say, is bad. In the coming days, APC may have set itself up for endless litigation that could distract the party badly ahead of 2027, all because of excessive politics and unnecessary manipulation.

First, APC started by selling forms to people they already knew would never be cleared to participate in the primaries. After making huge money from the exercise, they went ahead to disqualify almost one-third of those who purchased the forms, simply because they believed they lack the locus to challenge the injustice in court.

But now, the real problem has emerged.

For almost 48 hours, APC has refused to announce the results of the Senatorial primaries conducted across the country.

Acting in line with party guidelines and its Constitution, APC had earlier constituted Electoral Committees nationwide to conduct the Senate primary elections on Monday. But shockingly, on the eve of the primaries, the party released a memo stripping those committees of the power to declare the results of the elections they were sent to conduct, unless such results were first vetted in Abuja.

And I ask, how do you empower people to conduct an election, yet deny them the authority to tell contestants who won and who lost?

Well, the Electoral Committees across the nation completed their assignments, yet APC has continued to withhold the results because what they are allegedly cooking up as “results” is still being perfected behind closed doors.

The implication of this manipulation is dangerous for the party itself. APC may have unknowingly fallen into the trap of aggrieved aspirants and handed even weak contenders a legal window to drag the party to court.

The moment those results are finally announced, even people who genuinely lost the primary elections may head straight to court, not necessarily to argue that they won, but to challenge the process used in declaring the results.

Their argument will be that APC, breached both the Electoral Act, the APC Constitution, and the party’s nomination guidelines, all of which mandates that primary election results must be declared at the venue where the election was conducted, by the Electoral Committee Chairman who supervised it. Reference can easily be made to Article 20.4 of the APC Constitution and Section 9(ii)(e) of the APC nomination guidelines.

And when these matters get to court, the focus may no longer be on who actually won or lost. The real issue will become whether APC followed its own rules and due process or not.

Sometimes, no matter how smart a system thinks it is, it cannot fool everybody all the time.

You are probably living inside a cave with no internet

So the winners that have been announced like Fayose's son are what

You people too lace too much bitterness with your politics hence always one sided

I’m sure it’s one osanyin obi person that wrote this bunkum! People that if one drunkard come now and tell them tinubu is elkamoru from Gabon , that he died 2000 years ago, they will start doing acrobatic and start worshipping that person ! Tueh!

Tinubu is building another Lagos in NASS...he want to handpick every senator and HOA members so he can control a president once he is gone...


Everyone can see this except tinubu die hard corruption supporters. ..

Nigeria is an now tinunu's property, tinubu will later instigate a national revolution that will outs him ND his family ND maybe even harm him...

He needs to be careful Nigeria is not lagos

chukwutee:
I’m sure it’s one osanyin obi person that wrote this bunkum! People that if one drunkard come now and tell them tinubu is elkamoru from Gabon , that he died 2000 years ago, they will start doing acrobatic and start worshipping that person ! Tueh!

tell that to the kidnapped teachers and ofcourse the man that was beheaded ohh let me guess did obi do that as well? Chaiiii

Ibehchizzy:
tell that to the kidnapped teachers and ofcourse the man that was beheaded ohh let me guess did obi do that as well? Chaiiii

more than that happens in your terrorists invaded region everyday n u seems unbothered

How did it miss shooting its head?😂

bigpicture001:
Tinubu is building another Lagos in NASS...he want to handpick every senator and HOA members so he can control a president once he is gone...


Everyone can see this except tinubu die hard corruption supporters. ..

Nigeria is an now tinunu's property, tinubu will later instigate a national revolution that will outs him ND his family ND maybe even harm him...

He needs to be careful Nigeria is not lagos

Bro your thoughts are not even extreme if he controls the NASS, and the Green Chamber why cant he aspire to be a life president like Paul biya and the likes and that’s what Elrufia fears has been which he stated.