What began as an ordinary primary election for the All Progressives Congress (APC) has degenerated into a party crisis of unbelievable proportions.
A Chieftain of the APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu shocked the general public on Sunday night with the release of a scathing communique calling for the resignation of the party’s National Chairman, John Oyegun. Here are four things you should know about the contentious primaries;
- The Primary election was held on September 3, 2016, and recorded 24 candidates contesting to be the APC flagbearer in Ondo state
- There had been several reports on an attempt by Asiwaju Tinubu to impose his preferred candidate, Mr. Abraham Olusegun on the party
- The other candidate who was seen as likely to win was Rotimi Akeredolu, who was the ACN governorship flag bearer for the state in 2012
- Rotimi Akeredolu defeated Olusegun Abraham by 669 votes as a total of 2,740 delegates were accredited for the exercise
- Many of the contestants rejected the results of the primaries after claiming that a number of ‘fake delegates’ had voted at the elections
- The Ondo State APC Governorship Primary Election Appeal Committee also supported the claims of some of the contestants, recommending that fresh elections be held
- The Party’s National Working Committee rejected the recommendation of the Appeal Committee and claimed it was ‘fundamentally and fatally flawed’
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