The opposition Peoples Democratic Party  has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to annul the recent election of former Edo State Governor, Mr. Adams Oshiomhole as the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), claiming that it was not held in compliance with the Electoral Act 2010 as amended.

The party also claimed that the election of 21 other unchallenged  national officers the APC last weekend in Abuja was not done in compliance with the Electoral Act 2010 (as amended).

The National Publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan stated this on Wednesday while speaking to a delegation from his Kabba/Bunu community in Kogi State paid him a courtesy visit.

Ologbondiyan faulted the procedure that led to their emergence and called on the electoral body to declare the election of Oshiomhole and the other elected officers void on the ground that they were not returned through the ballot.

According to the PDP spokesman, INEC had declared similar action null and void when the opposition party elected its officers through voice vote in 2012.

He words: “We want to recall that in 2012 we had a convention which INEC declared a nullity because they said we did not follow the rules‎. As we speak today, the coronation that the APC conducted at Eagle Square did not fit into any of our electoral laws. And we, therefore, call on INEC to declare it null and void.

“All those who did not go through votes at the convention, all those who were elected by voice votes, INEC must declare their elections null and void because they did not go through the electoral laws.”

While citing Section 85 (3) of the Electoral Act (as Amended), Ologbondiyan said the election of members of the executive committee or other governing body of any political party should be conducted democratically by allowing all members of the party or duly elected delegates to vote in support of acandidate of their choice.