Placards carrying protesters bearing various inscriptions such as “Ondo APC rejects Kangaroo primary election,” “No primary held in Ondo,” and “We want a fresh election,” among others stormed the APC secretariat in Ondo state to ask for fresh guber primary elections.
The party youths stormed the APC secretariat same day aggrieved aspirants were having a meeting with the National Working Committee NWC of the party as they were being appealed to so they can reconcile and support the declared winner, Aiyedatiwa ahead of the governorship election holding in November.
The leader of the protesters, who is also a party youth leader in Akure South, Kolawole Johnson, declared that only a rerun election could pacify their people back home in Ondo.
Addressing journalists
In his address to newsmen on Thursday in Akure concerning the issue, Johnson appealed to President Bola Tinubu and other party leaders to prevail upon the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party to inaugurate a new election committee chairman to oversee the fresh poll.
He posited that: “How can you claim to ratify the outcome of a primary and declare a candidate? It indicates foul play. Ondo is APC, and APC is Ondo State. We won’t sit idly by and allow opposition parties to seize Ondo from us.
“That’s why we urge the party to annul the primary. There must be a rerun, and we demand a new person to lead the committee overseeing us. What occurred was not a primary election; it was the sale of the APC ticket. We demand a rerun because we are dissatisfied with the process.
“We, therefore, implore President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to intervene in this matter. We cannot allow the opposition to assume control of Ondo State.”