We don’t want APC card carrying member as Osun REC – Osun APPPS tells Senate President

We don’t want APC card carrying member as Osun REC – Osun APPPS tells Senate President

The Association of Progressive Political Parties (Osun APPPS) has warned the Senate President not to reconsider the nomination and questioning of Mr. Muideen Olalekan as the Resident Electoral Commissioner representing Osun State of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

It will be recalled that the Senate on the 3rd of December, 2019 rejected the nomination of Raheem Muideen Olalekan as the Resident Electoral Commissioner representing Osun state of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on the ground that Raheem Muideen Olalekan could not defend the allegations of bias levelled against him by a petitioner.

This was contained in a statement issued and signed by the Chairman, Wole Adedoyin and made available to pressmen in Ilesa.

Also recalled that there was mild drama at the Senate Committee on INEC last month November 5 when the Osun State Commissioner nominee for INEC, Raheem Muideen, admitted that he remained a member of the All Progressives Congress (APC). But during the debate on the report, efforts by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege, APC Delta Central to save the embattled nominee failed.

But Wole Adedoyin who is the Chairman of the Hope Democratic Party (HDP) in the state said some powerful, high profile APC members in Abuja has been working underground with the Senate President to reconsider and endorse the appointment of Raheem Muideen, a 46 year old academic who openly confessed of being a bona-fide and card carrying member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) which negates part of constitutional criteria for INEC commissioner.