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Ondo APC guber aspirants accuse Oyegun of supporting corruption

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Ondo APC guber aspirants accuse Oyegun of supporting corruption

Governorship aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the September 3 primary in Ondo State, have accused the party leadership of covering “corruption and irregularities”.

This is as they condemned the John Odigie-Oyegun-led chairmanship of the party for upholding the election of Rotimi Akeredolu as the state party flag bearer in the next governorship election, despite the National Working Committee (NWC) recommendation for a rerun primary.

Governorship aspirants Olusola Oke, Senator Robert Boroffice and Olusegun Abraham, who had earlier protested the result of the election, stated this in Akure, Ondo State capital on Friday during a press conference.

Senator Boroffice who spoke on behalf of others, decried the action of the national Chairman of the party, Odigie-Oyegun, accusing him of overruling a decision supported by the NWC and majority of other party leaders.

“He rejected the path of truth and upheld the primary election that its process was characterised with corruption,” Senator Boroffice said.

According to him, other aspirants who participated at the primary and himself are determined to insist that justice is done in the matter regardless of the “undemocratic behaviour” of Odigie-Oyegun. He added that the level of fraud recorded during the primary election, was in sharp disagreement with the anticorruption tenets of the present APC-led Federal Government.

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He addressed insinuation in some quarters that some of them have joined other parties or are planning to, by saying that they were still members of the party but would consult with their supporters to decide the next line of action.

“We are determined to liberate our people and no undemocratic decision of a party and its leadership will be allowed to misdirect our attention from the goal.” he said.

Meanwhile, APC leadership on Friday in Abuja justified its decision to abandon the recommendations of its Appeal Committee on the September 3 conduct of governorship primary elections state.

The party denied the claim by a newspaper report that its national chairman, Odigie-Oyegun over-ruled the NWC and unilaterally forwarded Akeredolu’s name to INEC. APC said that its final decision was unanimously arrived at having identified some fundamental flaws in the report of the Appeal Committee.

By Ebere Ndukwu …

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