SEE GBEGE!!! APC IN LAMBO OVER ONDO GOV. CANDIDATE

– APC leaders call for fresh primary poll in
Ondo state over allegations of electoral
malpractices
– The party leaders claimed that a strange
delegates’ list was introduced on the eve of
the election after everyone had gone to
sleep
– They said it was the same list that was
eventually used for the election
The All Progressives Congress primary
election in Ondo state has again triggered
reactions as some leaders of the party have
called for the cancellation of the poll.
The leaders made the demand in a petition
to the chairman of the Election Appeal
Committee, The Punch reports.
The leaders, who signed the petition,
included a former APC Central Senatorial
Chairman, Adegboyega Adedipe, the Ondo
East and West local government chairmen,
Akintunde Samuel and Adeola Ademulegun
respectively.
According to the leaders, the election was
characterized by malpractices, even as they
urged the committee to conduct a fresh
primary.
Some APC leaders have called for the
cancellation of the governorship poll in Ondo
even as they urged the committee to
conduct a fresh poll following emergence of
Rotimi Akeredolu as the party flagbearer
The APC leaders claimed that a strange
delegates’ list was introduced on the eve of
the election after everyone had gone to
sleep. They said it was the same list that
was eventually used for the election.
The petition read in part: “ Names of 47% of
the delegates in Ondo-East were either deleted
or substituted with people who were unknown
to the party as executive members. Some of
the injected names were not even aware of the
development and so did not come for the
primary.
 “We wrote a petition to the election committee
chairman on the morning of the election and it
was reiterated that only people that had been
voting in previous primaries would be allowed
to vote with a promise to stand down the
voting process for Ondo-East and Ondo-West
local government areas. We were shocked that
the committee never honoured the pledge.
“In all, a total number of 64 names were
injected into the delegates’ list. The names
were unknown to the party. For instance,
somebody who never contested any election,
and some even unknown to the party suddenly
became ward chairmen in wards four, six, two
and seven of Ondo-East local government.”
The APC leaders also alleged that “the
absence of many legitimate voters paved the
way for “see and buy” voters that were
eventually used to further corrupt the
process.”
They added: “Many voters were recruited from
the road side including okada riders, bread-
sellers, street hawkers and others who were
not party members but just loitering around
the venue of the election.”
A former President of the Nigerian Bar
Association, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN),
emerged the winner of the election to pick
the party’s ticket for the November 26
governorship poll.
Akeredolu got 669 votes to beat his closest
rival, Segun Abraham, who garnered 635
votes.
His victory came after a total of 2774
delegates voted during the exercise which
was monitored by the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC).


Source :naij.com
Edited by DANIEL IKECHUKWU EKWUNIFE