LG Elections: Kwara APC primaries, a complete sham – Ex-spokesperson

…accuses state executives of corruption, incompetence

A former spokesperson of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kwara State, Tajudeen Aro, has condemned the process of the party’s local government primary election.

In a statement issued on Wednesday and confirmed by The Informant247, he described the primary election in Offa Local Council as a complete sham.

He said, “The exercise in Offa is a complete sham, and I 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. There are a thousand and one questions to be asked about that exercise. Continued justification of that exercise will lead to more damning exposures that may tear the party apart.”

Tajudeen Aro appealed to Kwara State Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq to dissolve the state executives, alleging them of corruption and incompetence, while warning against repeating 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 to 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 repetition of the same mistakes that led to our collective struggle against leadership failure in Kwara State.”