Lagos PDP candidates sue party, George, others over anti-party activities

A forum of aggrieved Lagos People’s Democratic Party (PDP) candidates in the 2023 general elections has instituted a suit against some party leaders, including the Deputy National Chairman, Bode George, over alleged anti-party activities.

According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the group, consisting of 24 candidates, led by the candidate for Lagos West Senatorial District in the 2023 elections, Segun Adewale, filed the suit before a Federal High Court in Lagos.

The group, during a media briefing, yesterday, in Lagos, urged the national leadership of the party to sanction all those that worked against the fortune of the party and its candidates at the 2023 general elections in Lagos.

According to him, it is demoralising and disheartening for candidates to spend their hard-earned money to buy nomination and expression of interest forms with huge money, only for the leaders to work against them during the elections.

“We emerged as the candidates of the party in our respective constituencies, and the party duly submitted our names to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) as candidates for the elections.

“Having got the guarantee from both the national and state arms of our party and upon the release of our names by INEC to participate in the elections, we went to town to campaign.

“We were buoyed with the belief that we were not alone in the struggle to actualise our dreams, since we have our party structure and party leaders who had sworn to uphold the constitution of the party.

“As the election days drew closer, this belief started disappearing as we started hearing rumour that some key leaders of our party, including the state chairman, were making clandestine moves to work against us,” he said.

Adewale, also a former Lagos PDP chairman, said that the leaders allegedly did all in flagrant disobedience to the constitution of the party, which they all swore to uphold.

He said that the leaders openly worked for the ruling party, while still superintending over PDP elections.