LG Elections: APC Oke-Ero protests imposition of candidates
In what could be termed as a grievance against the imposition of candidates for council chairmen and councillors to contest the September 21 local government elections, the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oke-Ero in the local government of Kwara state on Friday staged a protest at Kwara State Government House in Ilorin, the state capital.
The protest, which was led by the stakeholders and elders of the party in Oke-Ero, was done peacefully to demand justice.
Among the stakeholders present at the protest was former Deputy Speaker in the Kwara 9th Assembly, Rt Hon Adetiba Raphael.
The Informant247 had reported how some leaders and members of APC have expressed their dissatisfaction over the just concluded primaries.
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Among those who expressed dissatisfaction was the former publicity Secretary of APC in Kwara State, Alhaji Folaranmi Tajudeen Aro, who condemned the exercise in the southern part of the state, particularly Offa.
He said, “The exercise in Offa is a complete sham, and therefore, express my complete outrage and disappointment at the fraudulent exercise. I am dismayed that the party’s selection committee could come out to use the shameful Offa exercise to justify their complicity in this monumental electoral fraud that swept across the state.
“I want to make it crystal clear that no primary took place in Offa except in three wards where the people revolted, which showed them the direction of Offa. The so-called stakeholder decision was the first salvo packaged by a known notorious political bandit. On that exercise, there are thousand and one questions to be asked. Continued justification of that exercise will lead to more damning exposures that may tear the party apart.”
Tajudeen Aro, who happens to be the longest serving Publicity Secretary of the party, appealed to the Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to dissolve the state executives, alleging them of corruption and incompetence, while warning against the repeat of the same mistakes that led to a collective struggle against leadership failure in the state.
He said, “I want to appeal to His Excellency to dissolve the state executives for obvious reasons ranging from corruption and incompetence and complicity in matters that are capable of destroying the party
“As a key player in the Otoge revolution that swept across the state in 2019, I am dismayed by the repeat of the same mistakes that led to our collective struggle against leadership failure in Kwara state.”
