A group of Awori ethnic speaking leaders in Alimosho Federal Constituency of Lagos has urged the leadership of the opposition African Democratic Congress, (ADC) to list their son, Mr. Olalekan Abdulmojeed Anjolaiya, as its candidate for the forthcoming general election.
In a statement issued to newsmen in Lagos the Coordinator of the Awori Renaissance Forum, (ARF), Alhaji Muraina Ajala, stated that doing so would end the continued marginalisation of his people in the constituency.
Alhaji Ajala stated that it would a miscarriage of justice for the party to field a non-indigene while his people have enough competent sons and daughters to represent them in the National Assembly.
According to him, doing so would help the indigenous Awori speaking people to produce a representative for the constituency and that it would end years of continued marginalisation of his people.
He added that the call is premised on the report indicating that the candidate who had initially been presented by the party had been disqualified by the ADC leadership for engaging in multiple party registration.
