Crisis Rocks Ondo APC As Senatorial Aspirant Rejects Result Of Primaries
A fresh crisis is brewing in the Ondo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress APC) over the outcome of the Senatorial primaries conducted last weekend and the list of delegates used for the conduct of the election of the party in all the three senatorial districts of the state.
Kicking against the result of the primary, an aspirant in Ondo North senatorial district, Chief Alex Ajipe, while addressing journalists in Akure on Sunday, expressed displeasure over the process and the outcome of the Saturday Ondo North Senatorial primaries.
Ajipe, who described the whole process held in Owo, the headquarters of Owo Local Government as sham and show of shame, said the election was marred with irregularities, calling on the national leadership of the party to ensure credible conduct of fresh primary elections in the zone.
According to him, fake delegates participated in the election, noting that the party failed to make available the list of the party delegates before the election, while noting that the list presented by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was different from what was used for the election.
Ajipe maintained that fake results were allocated to the aspirants without proper conduct of the primary and said the process leading to the conduct of the primary election violated the electoral act and the APC constitution.
He stated that he visited all the 57 political wards in the North senatorial district in preparation for the primary but to his chagrin strange faces were accredited as delegates from all the various wards for the primary election.
