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).
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