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How Ondo APC Primary Was ‘rigged’, By Akinyelure by shaddoww: 6:56am On Oct 05, 2016 |
ALL Progressives Congress (APC) National
Vice Chairman (Southwest) Chief Pius
Akinyelure has explained how the party’s
governorship primary was manipulated,
culminating in the submission of Chief
Oluwarotimi Akeredolu’s name to the
Independent National Electoral Commission
(INEC) as the party’s candidate.
Akinyelure, in a statement, named the party’s
National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun,
National Secretary Mai Mala Buni and the
National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita
Izunaso, as the persons behind the act.
The statement, which the APC National Vice
Chairman said enjoys the support of six
National Working Committee (NWC) members,
accused the trio of using NWC meetings to
usurp powers and unilaterally take decisions
that their offices did not give them the power
to take.
It emerged that as many as three delegates’
lists for the election were in circulation at
some point after the first list was tampered
with.
Izunaso, according to the statement, single-
handedly removed, added or substituted
names on the initial list circulated to the
party’s 24 aspirants, leading to the emergence
of a second list that was altered in favour of
Akeredolu.
His action enjoyed the support of Oyegun and
Buni, even when other members of the NWC
opposed it because it conflicted with the
party’s rules.
Akinyelure’s statement reads: “The National
Organising Secretary confirmed to the NWC
meeting of Monday September 19, 2016 that
he actually received objections from some of
the aspirants as to the delegates’ list. Then
he unilaterally made the adjustments as he
deemed fit.
“It is emphasised that the National Organising
Secretary performed these adjustments
without recourse or reference to the NWC.
The NWC was not appraised of his actions
before the primary. The National Organising
Secretary then issued this altered list to the
Primary Election Committee for use in the
conduct of the election.
“This altered list became available to some of
the aspirants in the early hours of the election
day (September 3, 2016). When the election
process was about to commence, Chief
Oluwarotimi Akeredolu and three other
aspirants protested and raised objections as
to the delegates’ list to the election
committee.
“However, the committee members could not
address it as it was not within their
competence to do so. They went ahead with
the conduct of the election. After the
declaration of the results of the election by
the election committee, three aspirants
petitioned the Election Appeal Committee,
alleging discrepancies and the alteration of
the delegates’ list provided to them by the
election committee and other irregularities.
“Consequent on the above, the NWC of the
party received both the Election Committee
and the Election Appeal Committee’s reports,
which were tabled at the NWC meeting of
Monday, September 19, 2016.”
A decision by the NWC to submit the name of
an interim substitute to INEC as place holder
until a fresh primary was conducted suffered a
setback after Oyegun, Buni and Izunaso
“blindsided the other members to submit
Akeredolu’s name in spite of a six to five
votes in favour of presenting the substitute
name”.
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