babarazy: whether they like it or not, IROKO will rule again.

babarazy: whether they like it or not, IROKO will rule again.

duality: its foolishness to think ACN is a righteous party and a good substitute for PDP. unfortunately a lot of people are foolish. if nigerians are sincere in making change, they will have to remove their focus from these cult-like political parties.

its not ACN; its fashola.

its not ACN, its oshomolhe

its not PDP, its Akpbio

its not PDP, its Amaechi

50-member ACN committee to pick Ondo gov candidate

MAY 28, 2012 BY SUNDAY ABORISADE, AKURE


THE Action Congress of Nigeria in Ondo State has mandated a 50-man committee under the leadership of Chief Wunmi Adegbonmire to select the party’s candidate for the October 20 governorship poll in the state.

So far, over 30 aspirants are seeking to represent the party in the forthcoing poll.

Investigations by our correspondent revealed that the development might have put an end to insinuations that the party would conduct a primary election to pick its governorship candidate in the state.

The development is also generating apprehension among the aspirants and their followers as the committee is expected, after a thorough screening of the aspirants’ to announce the candidate before the middle of June.

A leading aspirant of the party, Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), confirmed the development in an interview with some journalists in Akure on Friday.

He expressed confidence that the development would further strengthen the party.

He said, “I can confirm to you that contrary to insinuations, the candidate that will represent our party in the forthcoming governorship election in the state will not be hand-picked from outside the state.

“Ondo people, in fact, about 50 elders of our great party drawn from the three senatorial districts of the state led by Chief Wunmi Adegbonmire are currently conducting the screening, considering the credentials of all the aspirants.

“The ACN has its own tradition of conducting its primaries. It is not that the whole world would be invited to witness how the candidate would be picked.

“Leaders of the party across the state being the real stakeholders would determine the fate of the aspirants. It is not that an anointed candidate would emerge outside the state.”

The former Chairman of the Nigeria Bar Association denied rumours that a national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has been summoning aspirants to his Lagos home to carry out private screenings.

“Asiwaju Tinubu is a frontline national leader of the party but he is not the sole determiner of whoever that will emerge as the candidate. I was only in his house once this year and that was during his birthday celebrations.”

rasputinn: An Abuja-based non-governmental organisation, Society for Rule of Law in Nigeria (SRLN), has urged the National Judicial Council (NJC) and security agencies in the country to probe the claim by the former Minister of State for Defence, Dr. Olu Agunloye, that it was the suspended President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, who nominated Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) for the October 20 Ondo State governorship election.

The group said Agunloye’s claim should not be wished away because allegations of judges’ involvement in the selection of political parties’ candidates for election is one that portends grave danger for democratic governance and rule of law in the country.

When asked whether it was true that Justice Salami actually influenced the choice of Akeredolu as ACN candidate, Agunloye, who was also a governorship aspirant in the party said; “Tinubu himself was quoted to have said that he needed to do this as compensation to Justice Salami. We were asking him what concerns Ondo State with Justice Salami and if Salami had done any good for you, find a way of compensating him and if he is interested in governorship of Kwara State, give him Kwara State and not Ondo State.”

Reacting, SRLN said in a statement issued yesterday by its National Coordinator, Chima Ubeku that Agunloye’s revelation was a further confirmation of the unholy relationship that exist between Justice Salami and the ACN leader, Bola Tinubu, and “the NJC must act on this new revelation.”

“We wish to draw the attention of Nigerians to the revelation made by Dr. Olu Agunloye in his interview published in some newspapers last Saturday and Sunday, on the involvement of Justice Salami in the emergence of Akeredolu as the ACN governorship candidate for Ondo State, and wish to state that such claims are not what should be wished away.

“This is because the issue of Salami’s unholy relationship with the ACN leader, Bola Tinubu has remained one of the major credibility crises facing the judiciary in Nigeria and Agunloye’s revelation has provided another clue as to how it can be resolved.

“Besides, democracy in Nigeria risks grave danger if judges are now openly involved in partisan politics.

“Our question is, with Akeredolu as the candidate of a notorious judge, who also has his ‘trusted’ men in the bench, what will happen when litigations arise on the Ondo State governorship election?

“Are judges going to be imported from other countries to sit on petitions arising from the Ondo State election?

“The NJC and security agencies in the country must therefore probe Dr. Agunloye’s claim, because like other revelations on Salami and Tinubu’s convivial relationship, it touches on the very root of rule of law in the country,” SRLN said.




http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/ondo-poll-group-wants-salami-s-alleged-nomination-of-akeredolu-probed/124742/

pro01: I am not surpirsed. Some of us have long believed Justhief Salami to be a shameless rogue - God knows how much he has been receiving from Bola Tinubu for his 'services' in 'arranging' favourable black market judgments in favour of the ACN. How would an Appeal Court Judge refuse to be promoted to the Supreme Court? It simply shows he had illicit motives.

I have no doubt that Akeredolu's emergence as ACN gubernatorial flagbearer in Ondo state has something to do with Justhief Salami. Who knows? Maybe he was even the go-between for the Justhief and Tinubu. Even the Akeredolu's SANship raises doubt - a man whose lack of intelligence and coherence is astounding for a so-called senior advocate. Bloody rogues. They would receive a trouncing at the hands of IROKO. ACN is a personality cult. . .that's not what Ondo people want.

garri_gangster: Many choose to chase shadows and forget about the substance. You have no business with the civil rights' group or its antecedent. What should be of concern to you is the matter at hand here which is ;Did Salami actually nominate Akeredolu? If yes, himself and the ACN are not credible.
Simple

dedeike:
Salami is just an ACN chieftain. He should just come out in the open and wield his own broom.

take dat: I am apathetic to who ever becomes governor of Ondo state but from your post i can only deduce that you are only being delusional cos Mimiko himself became a governor through a Court of Appeal pronouncement under Salami