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Ondo Election: Oke Not Our Candidate, Insists AD by Ivanlxi(m): 9:26pm On Oct 21, 2016 |
The National Legal Adviser, Alliance for
Democracy, Mr. Kehinde Aworele, on Friday
said the party’s National Executive
Committee did not recognise Chief Olusola
Oke as its governorship candidate in the
forthcoming Ondo state election.
Oke, who claims to be AD’s gubernatorial
flag bearer for the election coming up on
November 26, had in 2012 contested
governorship election in the state on the
platform of Peoples Democratic Party and
lost.
He defected to All Progressives Congress
where he vied for governorship ticket for
the November poll but was unsuccessful.
He immediately switched to AD and
claimed to have picked its gubernatorial
mandate for the election.
The AD National Organising Secretary, Mr.
Ibrahim Abdollah, had in a communiqué on
October 14 in Akure, after the party’s NEC
meeting said the party was unaware of
Oke’s candidature.
Aworele told newsmen that there were
certain decisions taken solely by the
National Chairman of the party, Chief
Joseph Avazi, which ought to have been
done by the NEC.
He maintained that the outcome of
October 14 NEC meeting remained binding,
saying, “we have said that Olusola Oke is
not known to the party because he does
not follow proper procedure of the party,
so he is not even a member of AD.
“On the issue of his eligibility, I will not
comment on that because it is pending
before the Federal High Court, Akure.
“But, I can tell you that he is not a
member of our party because he has not
complied with the constitutional procedure
of our party by which a candidate should
emerge.”
He said the party had a candidate named
Mr. Akin Olowookere, who purportedly
stepped down for Olusola Oke, but had not
formally informed the party.
He said, “It was some members of the
party who went to the media that we had
rescinded our earlier decision through the
communique issued by the party’s NEC.
“There was information that Olusola Oke
met some members who later spoke
against our decision but this cannot be
valid.
“As at today, we have passed a vote of no
confidence on the national chairman,
national secretary and national auditor of
the party and it is the NEC of the party
that can make a change of that decision.
“I don’t have anything against Oke as a
person; he is a nice gentleman and a
member of my profession but he should
not come through the backdoor.”
He said the party needed more members
but that whoever wanted to join should
take the proper channel in order not to
jeopardise the party pedigree and integrity.
Reacting, Oke’s Campaign Manager, Mr.
Bola Ilori, said that AD’s legal adviser’s
position was a “distraction and
entertainment’’.
He was supported by the Secretary of the
party in the state, Mr. Sola Agboola, who
said that those against Oke’s candidature
were being sponsored by the opposition.
Similarly, Olowookere said that he had
stepped down for Oke, adding that Aworele
was “merely distracting the teeming
supporters of Chief Oke’’. |
Re: Ondo Election: Oke Not Our Candidate, Insists AD by Mentcee(m): 12:01am On Oct 22, 2016 |
Good for them.
Buhari's evil schemings will surely haunt him to death together with that Daura Madman, sorry Mamman |