Lagos State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Olawale Oluwo, has resigned his appointment and has left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). He has vowed to work for Jimi Agbaje, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the next governorship election. “A few hours ago, I submitted to His Excellency, the Governor of […]
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Lagos State Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources, Olawale Oluwo, has resigned his appointment and has left the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).
He has vowed to work for Jimi Agbaje, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the next governorship election.
“A few hours ago, I submitted to His Excellency, the Governor of Lagos State, a letter of resignation of my appointment as Honourable Commissioner for Energy and Mineral Resources. And consequently as a registered member of the All Progressives Congress,” Oluwo said in his resignation letter.
Oluwo accused APC of deliberately overseeing an “integrity-deficient” governorship primary” in October.
The primaries saw the incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode losing to Babajide Sanwo-Olu, who enjoyed the support of the Mandate Movement of APC’s national leader, Bola Tinubu.
Oluwo also claimed that the party lacked integrity, stressing that this has eroded the integrity claim of the state as a reference point for free and fair democratic practice.
Oluwo said, “My decision to resign is not unconnected with the recent events of the last few weeks, which have encouraged a moral burden for me. I have found it rather difficult to come to terms and rationalize the party’s conduct of the October 2018 primary elections,”
“Which were largely characterized by massive voter disenfranchisement, intimidation, violence, undue influence and non-compliance with all known principles of democracy.”
“The integrity-deficient nature of the primary has significantly diminished the hard-earned reputation of our State as a reference point for a free and fair democratic practice,” Oluwo said
