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BOTCHED EKITI APC PRIMARY: Ex-Gov Oni points accusing finger at Oyegun’s NWC

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BOTCHED EKITI APC PRIMARY: Ex-Gov Oni points accusing finger at Oyegun’s NWC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, has been fingered over what led to the disruption of Ekiti governorship primary on Saturday, an aspirant in the election and a former governor of the state, Segun Oni, has said.

The Saturday primary was disrupted while voting was ongoing after allegations that there were plots by an aspirant, a former governor of the state and current Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, to compromise the election with the aid of the party National Working Committee (NWC).

Reacting to the outcome of the election in Ifaki-Ekiti on Sunday, Oni, who was also former APC national deputy chairman (South), wondered how Mogaji Aliyu, said to be an ally of Fayemi could be made a secretary of the committee organising the election.

Oni, who applauded the chairman of the election committee, Nasarawa State Governor Alhaji Tanko Al-Makura for standing for what is right, however regretted what happened on Saturday during the election.

He said, “Those who have penchant for cheating and fraud structured the primary to favour a particular aspirant. I was the APC national deputy chairman for four years, despite I never used my position to influence anything about a primary I was directly involved.

“When you have penchant for fraud or to cheat the system, it makes democracy to look sour and uninteresting.

“How would one feel to get to the field of play and found out that the referee was nominated by one of the teams? We found out that the secretary of the committee, Aliyu Mogaji was nominated by an aspirant and Governor Al-Makura later got to know about this and dropped him from functioning as the Returning Officer.

“That is why the NWC led by Chief Oyegun owes all of us a thorough explanation about how Mogaji found himself in the committee and how to prevent such in future, except that we are hiding under democracy to fool ourselves.

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“Whether I will be governor or not or hold political office in the future, I think enough is enough about people being desperate to get positions , because we must give confidence to our people”.

On whether he will support a consensus candidate, he said, “I support consensus but now it is impossible, because the perception of the society makes it difficult for politicians to reach compromise. Politicians are always under pressure from their admirers and announcing to them that you have stepped down for someone could create bad impression about you, so it will be difficult to achieve at this level.”

Fayemi had since denied the allegation that he wanted to compromise the election.

 

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