Following the controversies that trailed the governorship main election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State on Saturday, the State’s chapter of the opposition Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP) has described the train as a “big charade”.
In a press release on Saturday, the PDP publicity secretary, Kennedy Peretei, stated it was evident that the ruling APC can not deal with the affairs of the state if it was unable to organise a reputable main election for its members.
In keeping with the PDP, the governor of Kogi State, Usman Ododo, who led the seven-man APC Electoral Committee that carried out the first election, has allegedly prompted extra havoc than his predecessor, Yahaya Bello, who by the way chaired the identical main election within the State 4 years in the past.
Peretei stated, “The over-hyped All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship main election in Ondo State turned out to be an enormous charade and a mockery of democracy in each sense of the phrase.
“4 years in the past, former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello, who has been declared needed by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) for N85 billion fraud, presided over the same occasion in Akure, the place not one of the aspirants sighted the delegates listing earlier than the first.
“As on the morning of the election, it was not clear whether or not it was going to be a direct or oblique main. That was the train that produced former governor Rotimi Akeredolu as candidate of the APC for the 2020 governorship election.
“This time, governor Ahmed Ododo, Bello’s successor in workplace has wrecked extra havoc than his boss. If the APC can not conduct a free, truthful, clear and credible main election for 171,922 of their members, they need to perish the concept of presiding over the affairs of Ondo State past the eight years through which they’ve virtually stagnated the State.”
The PDP spokesperson additional added that within the coming week, the PDP would conduct its main election in an organised approach, within the full glare of the media.
“It’s a disgrace that the APC can not carry solely one among their sixteen aspirants to sq. up with different political events within the basic election by way of a course of that’s above board. That alone, is an affirmation that, the celebration ought to be consigned to the dustbin of historical past, the place it rightfully belongs.
“The Peoples Democratic Occasion (PDP), Ondo state chapter, will as soon as once more show its superior organizational sagacity and democratic credentials this week, by way of a governorship main election that can be coated stay by media homes and non-governmental organizations within the full glare of the world,” Peretei acknowledged.