Oyo PDP primaries: 3 governorship aspirants threaten boycott

Date: 10-01-2011 11:33 am (13 years ago) | Author: Aliuniyi lawal
- at 10-01-2011 11:33 AM (13 years ago)
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Three governorship aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State have threatened to withdraw from the party’s primaries slated for Wednesday.

The aspirants, Alhaji Yekeen Adeojo, Chief Wole Oyelese and Alhaji Hazeem Gbolarumi, have alleged plan by the executive members of the party to give the party’s ticket to the incumbent governor, Chief Adebayo Alao-Akala.

Aside their non-participating in the primaries, the trio have threatened to challenge whatever may be the outcome of the primaries.

The aggrieved contestants condemned the state congress of the party held at Obafemi Awolowo Stadium (former Liberty Stadium) penultimate Friday, which produced the Dejo Afolabi-led executive council and reportedly ratified by the party at the national level.

According to them, the congress lacked legal backing, because all the people who came to supervise it from Abuja, like the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) members and representatives of the PDP headquarters, had left before the congress was staged by the Governor Alao-Akala faction.

Gbolarumi, who spoke from the United Kingdom, on Sunday morning, said the exercise would amount to a nullity should the party go ahead with the primaries under the current alleged illegal executive led by Dejo Afolabi.

He insisted that the fresh congresses ordered by the party’s National Working Committee were suspended following the Ona-Ara Local Government incident where a factional leader of the disbanded state chapter of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), Lateef Salako, a.k.a. Eleweomo, was killed.

Posted: at 10-01-2011 11:33 AM (13 years ago) | Gistmaniac