No fewer than 260 aggrieved
members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State have urged Vice
President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) to accommodate them in the ruling party.
The APC members said they
obtained nomination forms to contest for the House of Representatives and the
House of Assembly primary but the party did not give them opportunity.
They had late last year
approached the Federal High Court in Akure challenging the party for failure to
conduct the party primary elections of 2018 /19 election year.
The crisis was almost consuming
the party as key leaders spread across the state felt disenchanted with the
non-conduct of the primary elections in the state.
However, early this year, a
reconciliatory committee was set up by the national body of APC comprising the
then governors of Borno, Lagos, Kaduna and DG-NIMASA, former Deputy Governor of
Ekiti Prof. Mrs Adelabu, and the Secretary (woman) from Kano State.
They reportedly met with the Ondo
APC aggrieved Aspirants at the Ekiti State Governor’s office where
recommendations were made.
But the group in a letter on
Tuesday sent to the Vice President and signed by the former Speaker of the Ondo
State Assembly, Kenneth Olawale, said up till now, the recommendation had not
seen the light of the day.
The letter added, “Subsequently,
a meeting was held in Akure chaired by His Excellency, the vice – president of
Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbanjo (SAN) and attended by other National leaders of
the Party with the aggrieved aspirants that went to court, where it was agreed
upon, that the pre-election suit pending in the Federal High Court be
withdrawn.
“The VP then urged the aggrieved
aspirants to work for the party’s victory with a promise to compensate them.
Consequently the case was withdrawn and the aggrieved aspirants worked
assiduously for the party in the State.
“We were expecting the team led
by the vice president to fulfill its part of the agreement which included but
not limited to compensations in lieu of costs incurred by these aspirants in
the buildup to the primary elections that was never allowed to take place in
the State.
”However, we were surprised that
the leadership of the party has not deemed it fit to allow further
communications between us since we fulfilled our own part of the agreement in
spite of several letters we wrote to the appropriate authorities”.
The group pleaded with Prof. Yemi
Osinbanjo and his team to promptly take appropriate action in the interest of
the party, stressing that the same disruptive pattern was already playing out
in Imo, Rivers, Osun and Zamfara States.
”We beg you to please honour the
understanding, we sought from the aggrieved aspirants in Ondo State since the
case in court is withdrawn, the presidency has the capacity to accommodate all
260 aggrieved APC aspirants from Ondo State,” they added.
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