The aspirants added that the allegations were designed to divert attention from the core issues that prompted the protest.
Some aggrieved aspirants who participated in the recently concluded All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives and Lagos State House of Assembly primary elections have denied allegations that the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Mudashiru Obasa, sponsored their recent protest against the outcome of the exercise.
The aspirants, operating under the umbrella of the Body of Lagos APC Aggrieved House of Representatives and House of Assembly Aspirants, described attempts to link Obasa to the demonstration as "mischievous, baseless and distracting."
The group, in a statement jointly signed by nine aspirants, maintained that the protest was a legitimate and peaceful expression of dissatisfaction over what they described as discrepancies between the actual outcomes of the primaries and the results eventually announced by party officials.
“Our attention has been drawn to the malicious, unfounded, and deliberately misleading allegations being circulated in certain quarters that the Speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Rt. Hon. Dr. Mudashiru Obasa, sponsored the peaceful protest recently staged by aggrieved aspirants who participated in the All Progressives Congress (APC) House of Representatives and House of Assembly primaries in Lagos State,” the statement said.
