Politics
Chairman Omo-Agege, Members Disappear As APC Refuses To Take Appeal In Controversial Osun Guber Primary
The All Progressives Congress is not taking appeals from aggrieved parties in the just conclude gubernatorial primary election in Osun state.
This is after several assurances to stakeholders – particularly aspirants that – that them to embrace the contentious direct voting system.
Governor Abubarkar Yari, originally appointed as chairman of the committee Put in place to midwife the process had resigned over pressure to give in to actions that would taint his name barely twenty-fours to the shadow election.
Gov Yari, Osun APC Guber Primary Commit Chairman Resigns To Protect His Name!
Committee member Senator Ovie Omo-Agege had stepped in as acting chairman.
He held a meeting with all the seventeen aspirants and assured them of “a free and fair” process as well as structure in place to entertain all grievances the process might throw up.
His assurances turned out a mirage during and after the shadow election.
Electoral malpractices including votes buying and intimidations of voters reportedly decorated the process.
Seeing what was happening, leading aspirant Kunle Rasheed Adegoke cried out the process was a charade in the middle of the process.
societynow.ng gathered the hope of those armed with evidence of the illegalities that transpired during the exercise in an appeal process is dashed.
Societynow.ng gathered that Omo–Agege who served as Chairman of the electoral committee and his member disappeared after announcing Gboyega Oyetola, the aspirant the process was allegedly skewed to favour as Winner.
Oyetola had extraordinary backing from Governor Rauf Aregbesola and his half brother Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Sources confirmed Omo- Agege refused to pick the calls of aggrieved aspirants seeking to appeal against the conduct of the shadow election nor respond to text messages.
Members of his committee and other party chieftains expected to be at the state secretariat to attend to such matters were reportedly no were to be found after Oyetola was announced winner.
Insiders confirmed state officials on hand refused to entrain complains or accept correspondence to such effect.
“This directly violates the constitution of the party because it means no appeal panel was put in place and it also shows an orchestrated move by Oyetola’s backers to win at all cost” an insider stated.
