Ondo APC primaries: Boroffice calls for cancellation, rerun

Senator Ajayi Boroffice has called for a rerun and total cancelation of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Ondo State governorship primary held last Saturday.

The Senator made the call on Thursday, at a reception rally organised for him by a member of the House of Representatives in Akoko South West/South East constituency.

He disclosed in his speech at the event that he was told that many hired people who were not delegates voted in the party’s primary election.

He therefore said, “If the appeal committee finds out that the allegations that characterised the election were true, a total cancellation of the exercise is the best. I am in support of total cancellation of the election, we must do it again.”

Senator Boroffice, whose call for the annulment of the primary came five days after the election took place claimed, “Before the conclusion of the election, I kept hearing the rumours that the delegates’ list has been infiltrated. That there are even some people who were not accredited, who are not even delegates but were given tags and induced to come and vote. That has been substantiated now and it’s unfortunate.”

The senator insists he will remain an APC member regardless of the alleged fraud that took place during the election of the party with change mantra.

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“I am a loyal party man, I had the opportunity to leave the party in 2012 but I didn’t. I was one of the three people that remained then, among the aspirants. I am not in this party to be a governor. I am in this progressive party to help build Nigeria. If I don’t become governor, another person will be a governor, as long as the process is free, fair and credible,” he said.

The lawmaker, representing Ondo North senatorial district at the Senate, came fourth with 471 votes in the Ondo State APC primary, which Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) won by 669 votes, beating his closest rival Dr Segun Abraham with 34 votes. Chief Olusola Oke came third with 583 votes.

Abraham who initially congratulated Akeredolu, had also called for the cancellation of the primary on the same allegation of fraud.

 By Ebere Ndukwu …

 

 

 

 

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