Local government councillors from Ife/Ijesa district have warned the All Progressives Congress in Osun State against upturning the victory of Alhaji Sola Lawal, who was reported to have won the party’s Senatorial ticket in Osun East Senatorial District.

The councilors, who took a protest letter to the APC secretariat in Osogbo on Monday, threatened not to recognise any candidate imposed on the party in the zone.

The letter was signed by about 80 councilors from the local government areas across the senatorial district including the Chairman, Councillors Forum in Ife/Ijesa Senatorial District, Rawlings Oyebayo.

The letter read, ” We, members of the body of councillors in Ife/Ijesa have watched with dismay recent development in our party particularly with regards to the nomination of flag bearer for the senatorial seat in our district. It is noted that the process of indirect primaries is welcome, it is a marked improvement on the old order of imposition.

“We are, however, dismayed that the popular candidate for the Senate in our senatorial district, Alhaji Sola Lawal, who won the acclaimed primaries with 17 votes to beat the incumbent’s paltry three votes, is about to be robbed of his victory.

“It is our wish to state unequivocally that anybody presented outside the rightful owner of the mandate, Sola Lawal, will not be acceptable to us. We are resolute in our firm belief that only a credible candidate can win the next election for us.”

Sources close to the party had told our correspondent that Lawal, who is the Publicity Secretary of the APC in Ogun State, scored 17 votes against three votes polled by serving Senator Babajide Omoworare in the modified primary conducted at the Government House. But Omoworare’s media aide, Mr. Tunde Dairo, told our correspondent that no election was conducted while describing the modified primary as a kangaroo one.

He alleged that the chairman of the screening committee, who screened the aspirants, Isa Azeez, surprisingly turned the screening into the “so called primaries.”

He said, “After the sham, the governor called party leaders and they organised a proper primaries, which Senator Babajide Omoworare won convincingly.”

However, the Director of Publicity, Research and Strategy of APC in Osun State, Mr. Kunle Oyatomi, said in a telephone interview with our correspondent in Osogbo on Sunday that the party had not conducted primaries to pick its flag bearers for the National Assembly elections.

He said the result of the APC’s primaries would be made available either on Tuesday or Wednesday.

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politic corrupt the holy of all men

I never knew the State of Osun has local government councillors!

Apc the EMPIRE OF EVIL MINDS... GEJ till 2019!!!

Do the right thing, pls.

Watching them from my 3D glasses