In a statement yesterday by its General Secretary, Akin Ulenuse, the group said the Minister had questions to answer about his activities in Ilaje about a week before the election and the role he played on the by-election day.
The group also wants the Minister to explain "why he led soldiers to intimidate voters in an election that does not directly affect him or the people of Lagos Island."
The statement reads: "We have it on good authority that the Minister arrived the area days before the election and supervised the harassment and intimidation of voters by the soldiers he led to the area. It should be ascertained if the minister acted alone or he was by his action, doing somebody or some person's bidding."
Reactions have continued to trail the declaration of the election as inconclusive by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In a joint statement, the Chairman of People for Democratic Change (PDC), Lawrence Oyebamiji; his Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) counterpart Lawrence Kehinde and Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA) Chairman Chief Alamuren Ogunbodede urged INEC to declare the Labour Party's (LP's) standard bearer, Mr. Kolade Akinjo, winner of the poll.
They based their decision on the fact that the result in 21 of the 22 wards had been collated and Akinjo had the highest votes of over 23,000.
Praising INEC for a "job well done during the election", they urged the candidates of other parties to accept defeat in good faith and cooperate with the winner.
The party chairmen said: "The people of Ondo State should not be made to go through the rigour they passed through in last Saturday's poll because of a ward election, both in terms of money and energy. We agree that the LP candidate be declared winner so that the existing peace in the state can be maintained."
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