Many aggrieved aspirants of the House of Representatives and House of Assembly on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, on Monday, November 5, rejected the outcome of primaries in Ondo state.
The aspirants numbered one hundred dragged the party’s national chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole and the Independent National Electoral Commission to court over the primaries.
According to an online medium, Sahara Reporter, their complaint was led by former speaker of the House of Assembly, Kenneth Olawale, there was no primary election in the state.
Through the counsel, Wale Omotoso, other aspirants, including Eni Omosule, Mukaila Ayorinde Ajakaye, Coker Malachi, Ayodeji Arowele, Dele Ologun, Olaposi Joe Babatunde and Agunloye Taiwo, among others.
The aggrieved aspirants asked for: “A declaration that the subversion of the Electoral Guidelines of the APC as stipulated in its constitution by the party machinery in Ondo state in respect of the House of Representatives and House of Representatives primaries purportedly conducted on the 5th of October, 2018 in their failure to give the claimants opportunity of being voted for by the members of the party as enshrined in the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended, is illegal, invalid, unconstitutional, null and void.
“A declaration that the hand picking of preferred candidates without conducting any primary election in any of the ward and constituency in Ondo state with non-presence of any officials of INEC and members of the National Electoral Committee of the party amounting to pre-arranged choice of candidates is illegal, contrary to the Electoral Guideline of the APC and the express provisions of the Electoral Act 2010, as amended in 2015.
“A declaration that the harassment, molestation and intimidation of the claimants in their various units leading to their being forcibly chased away and embarrassed from all venues designed for the purpose of the primary elections with machetes and Dane guns by hired thugs and hoodlums of the preferred candidates, thereby ensuring that no primary election was held, amount to gross flagrant breach of Electoral Guideline of the party and the express provisions of the Electoral Act 2010, as amended in 2015.”
The presiding judge, Justice F. A. Olubanjo ordered that all the defendants must be served and fixed the hearing of the case for November 12.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had reported that some governors on the platform of the APC reportedly called for the removal of the chairman of the party, Adams Oshiomhole.
A minister who spoke on the condition of anonymity on Wednesday, October 9, said they were not comfortable with his style of leadership.
The minister reportedly claimed the governors did not financially contribute to the party’s convention and were monitoring how money gotten from sale of nomination forms are being spent.
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