National Legal Adviser, Alliance for Democracy
(AD), Mr Kehinde Aworele, said the party’s National
Executive Committee (NEC) did not recognise Chief Olusola Oke as its governorship candidate in Ondo state.
Aworele said this on Friday when addressing
newsmen in Akure. Oke, who claims to be AD’s gubernatorial flag bearer for the election coming up on Nov. 26, had in 2012, contested governorship election in the state on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and lost.
He defected to All Progressives Congress (APC),
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 News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the
AD National Organising Secretary, Mr Ibrahim Abdollah, had in a communiqué on Oct. 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 Oct. 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.
Aworele said: “It was some members of the party
who went to the media that we had rescinded our
earlier decision through the communiqué 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 told NAN 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’’.

Source: www.versatilereporters.com/2016/10/ondo-2916-olusola-oke-not-our-candidate.html?m=1

Okay

WATCHING IN 4HD THE SAGA IN ONDO POLITICS.
BY THE WAY,CAN AD WIN THE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTION IN ONDO,WHY IS HE WASTING HIS TIME,MONEY AND OTHER RESOURCES

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I greet ooo.
So you just quoted the whole post without saying anything.
Back to the topic, APC is in disarray, PDP is divided, now AD? Ondo state is in serious trouble.

AD make una pity the guy na...they guy has been rejected everywhere already na

I am only here to buy land, I hear say land cheap for info wella !!!

ouzo1:
AD make una pity the guy na...they guy has been rejected everywhere already na

He should go to Labour Party.
They might accept him.