{"id":21474,"date":"2017-05-26T16:18:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/?p=21474"},"modified":"2017-05-26T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T15:18:58","slug":"muiz-banire-warns-rigging-lg-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/muiz-banire-warns-rigging-lg-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Muiz Banire warns against rigging at the LG primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Muiz Banire, SAN, has warned that the process to select flagbearers for the forthcoming local government elections in Lagos should <a href=\"http:\/\/dailypost.ng\/\">not be manipulated in favour of certain candidates<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Banire also opposed the decision of the Lagos State chapter to conduct primaries election for all the aspirants in a centralized location.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He lamented that the decision was alien to the party and not in the APC constitution, warning against the holding the exercise in such manner.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A unified primary election is scheduled to hold tomorrow, May 27 at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Surulere, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to the State Chairman, Henry Ajomale, Banire stressed that the Local Government Executives are empowered by the APC constitution to designate suitable venues for the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He said, \u201cAs the custodian of the party constitution, It is of utmost necessity for me to say immediately that this will not be in consonant with the letter and the spirit of the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe (APC) constitution confers the power to designate the venue of such council primaries in the party Executive of the Local Government\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Banire said in other states, local government primary nelections were never done in centralized locations including Benue State chapter of the APC that recently held its primaries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, asked the state chairman to comply with the provision of the APC constitution by stopping all arrangements for tomorrow\u2019s centralised primaries and allow the local government executives to designate venue for the exercise in their respective councils.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The APC legal adviser continued: \u201cI must say that I do not want to believe that the essence of seeking to centralize the conduct of the primaries is to manipulate and rig the process in favour of certain imposed candidates.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo avoid this, and in line with our great party\u2019s practice of publicizing the conduct of primaries (right from the conduct of primary for presidential election to the primaries for election at the state level \u2013 gubernatorial and National assembly), the same tradition must continue with the primaries into local governments.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am also aware that the National body is sending monitors while observers are expected at the various venues.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI urge transparency and fairness in the conduct of the primaries. It is necessary to avoid any exercise in futility\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Legal Adviser of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr Muiz Banire, SAN, has warned that the process to select flagbearers for the forthcoming local government elections in Lagos should&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21475,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6525,7361,7096,7362],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/banire.jpg?fit=615%2C340&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29525,"url":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/just-apc-suspends-national-legal-adviser-muiz-banire\/","url_meta":{"origin":21474,"position":0},"title":"Just In: APC Suspends National Legal Adviser Muiz Banire","author":"Reporter","date":"July 27, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"The Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Mushin Local Government area of Lagos State has upheld the decision to suspend the party's National Legal Adviser, Dr Muiz Banire from party as recommended by his ward (Ward C, Ilasamaja, Mushin). \u00a0 The recommendation was predicated on various anti\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Muiz Banire, AMCON,","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Muiz-Banire.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Muiz-Banire.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Muiz-Banire.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Muiz-Banire.jpg?fit=800%2C600&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":28344,"url":"https:\/\/www.citypeopleonline.com\/life-threat-fighting-imposition-apc-muiz-banire\/","url_meta":{"origin":21474,"position":1},"title":"My Life Is Under Threat For Fighting Against Imposition In APC \u2013 Muiz Banire","author":"Damilare Salami","date":"July 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"All Progressives Congress (APC) national\u00a0legal adviser, Muiz Banire, has said that he has been receiving\u00a0life-threatening messages over his fight against the \u201cimposition\u201d of candidates in the party. 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