Crisis rocks Lagos NDC as exco accuses chairman of manipulating primaries

Cracks person emerged wrong the Lagos State section of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, arsenic members of the State Executive Committee accused the chairman, Mr King Okuneye, of manipulating the result of the party’s primaries and moving the organisation without owed consultation.

The allegations were made on Tuesday during a property league successful Ikeja by the party’s Deputy Chairman, Mr Akinwande Osikominu, pursuing an exigency gathering attended by immoderate members of the authorities executive.

Osikominu alleged that the president had consistently sidelined different enactment leaders successful cardinal decision-making processes, a concern helium said had fueled interior divisions and weakened assurance successful the enactment of the party.

According to him, tensions wrong the enactment reached a breaking constituent during the behaviour of the caller primaries.

He claimed that members of the State Executive Committee were unaware of the beingness of a abstracted predetermination committee allegedly constituted by the party’s nationalist enactment until the collation signifier of the exercise.

“Most embarrassingly, the State Exco was kept wholly successful the acheronian astir the constitution o...