BOMBSHELL: Ondo APC Crisis: Tinubu ORDERED Us To Rejoin Alliance For Democracy, AD – Bola Ilori, Watch Video

A former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Hon. Bola Ilori has said the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was the one who instructed them to join the Alliance for Democracy.

Ilori, who spoke on TVC political programme said ”I don’t know APC before; it was Asiwaju Tinubu that said we should move to APC and we did.

According to Ilori, Tinubu’s decision was taken following the way he was treated on the party’s governorship primary election which was upheld on September 3, by the national executive committee members, led by Chief John Oyegun.

It will be recalled that Tinubu had been reportedly supporting one of the aspirants, Mr. Segun Abraham to become the party’s candidate, ahead of the November 26, gubernatorial election in Ondo State.

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But, his anointed aspirant came second with 635 votes, while Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, SAN, was declared winner with 669 votes.

Ilori, who is a stunched supporter of another aspirant, Chief Olusola Oke was said to have raised alarm over alleged padding of the delegates’ list.

But their action failed as the APC NWC threw out the report of the Appeal panel on the ground that the committee did a shady job.

However, Oke has defected to AD and is expected to fly the flag of the party in the coming poll.

“He has said AD is the option now; even If he said AA we won’t look back before we move to the party.

“All they are doing in the National headquarters of the party is Anti-Tinubu policies; not in Ondo alone but also in Kogi, Edo, Ogun and other parts of the country.

“Let Oyegun resign first and the problem of the party will be drastically reduced.

“Some people said it is because I want to be deputy governor at all cost. No! No! that is not true, we are fighting for what is not right.

“The younger generation of the party is bitter with what is happening in the party, we don’t have option than to move out.

“Some people are using president Buhari’s name to do the evil but I don’t know why the President kept silent.

“Someone who keeps silent in a situation like this, it is either the person is a coward or confused.”

2 Reasons Why We Uphold Akeredolu's Election - APC Reveals As Party Splits, 3 Top Aspirants Vow To Defect

The All progressives Congress, APC through a statement signed by it national Secretary, Mai Mala Buni has revealed why it overrules the Appeal Panel Committee recommendation to nullify Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu's candidacy as the Ondo State's gubernatorial candidate.

The APC in the state dismissed the claims by some aggrieved aspirants that majority of the National working Committee member voted in favour to nullify the election.

The statement in part reads; “voting on the issue did not arise in view of the NWC’s rejection of the Appeal Committee’s report”. Buni also stated that the NWC took the decision to reject the recommendations of the Committee on two grounds.

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Firstly, it lacked merit and secondly because of time. In a statement, the party said: “For the records, the National Working Committee (NWC) decision to reject the 2016 Ondo State APC Governorship Primary Election Appeal Committee Report was taken on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 in executive session after careful and exhaustive deliberation. The minutes and rejection was confirmed by the NWC on Thursday, September 22, 2016.

Meanwhile, the three top governorship aspirants during the last All Progressives Congress (APC) gubernatorial primary in Ondo State have rejected the decision of the leadership of the party to uphold the election of Mr. Oluwarotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the candidate of the party.

The trio also took a swipe at the leadership of the APC over its refusal to implement the report of the Appeal Committee of the party, which recommended the nullification of the primary election that produced Akeredolu as the candidate of the party.

The aspirants including Dr. Segun Abraham who came second, Chief Olusola Oke and Prof Robert Ajayi Boroffice who came third and fourth respectively ruled out the possibility of supporting Akeredolu to win the November 26 governorship election in the state, while threatening to dump the party for a new platform in order to contest the forthcoming election.

Addressing reporters at the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ) press centre in Akure, the state capital, the aspirants condemned the Na-tional Chairman, Chief John Oyegun for his “undemocratic behavior” by overruling the decision of the National Working Committee (NWC).

Boroffice who spoke on behalf of the other aggrieved aspirants said they are already consulting with their people and would soon make public their next line of action that would liberate the people from the present state of hopelessness and despair.

“The appeal committee within the mandate of their authority having regards to the preponderance of evidence laid before it recommended that the election be nullified and another election be conducted. “The majority of the members of the NWC voted that the recommendations of the appeal committee be upheld. To our dismay and in a manner at variance with democratic norms, the National Chairman overruled the majority of the NWC.

“He rejected the path of truth and upheld the primary election that it’s process was charcterised with corruption. Let it be known that we are not deterred by the action of the NWC and the undemocratic behaviour of the chairman.

“We are encouraged by the genuine desire of the people of Ondo State for a change that will free them from the economic captivity of the present administration in the state. ” We are determine to liberate our people and no undemocratic decision of a party and its leadership would be allowed to misdirect our attention from the goal.

We condemn in absolute terms the undemocratic decision of the NWC. “Since our party and the official leaders of the party have found pleasure in covering fraud, we owe the people of Ondo State a sacred duty of liberation. This we are committed to and this we shall do. ”

In the days ahead, we shall consult widely and make public the next line of action that will liberate our people from the present state of hopelessness and despair On the plan to dump the party, Boroffice said, “the people of the state will determine what our next decision would be. On his part, Oke said: ” We are still examining the situation, if we get to the bridge we will cross it.

We have no personal position. We will come out later with a clean and clear position within the shortest period of time. “I have not moved out of APC when I am ready I will shout it and address the press. 

THE UNTOLD: How Fashola, Fayemi, El-Rufai CONSPIRED, Raised N1.6b For Akeredolu To Disgrace Tinubu In Ondo

Saturday's All progressives Congress, APC gubernatorial election might have come and gone, but definitely, the last has not been told as fresh facts have emerged on the roles allegedly played by the Kaduna State Governor, Malam Nasir El-Rufai; Minister for Solid Minerals, Dr Kayode Fayemi and Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola raised over N1.5 billion to ensure the emergence of Mr Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate, Rotimi Akeredolu; all in a conspiracy bid to disgrace and tame the national leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, media reports suggest.

Akeredolu polled 669 votes to defeat APC National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu’s anointed candidate, Mr Segun Abraham, who scored 635 votes in the keenly contested primary election held in Akure, Ondo State capital last Saturday.

Tinubu had declared support for Mr Segun Abraham, a decision that got other aspirants, especially Akeredolu miffed.

According to reports, apparently relying on the support of El-Rufai, Fayemi and Fashola, the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) had boasted that outcome of the primary election would shocked Tinubu.

Multiple sources revealed that Fayemi alone allegedly contributed over N700 million while Fashola and El-Rufai provided N450 million and N400 million respectively.

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Fayemi was said to have particularly made up his mind to work against the emergence of Abraham just to pay Tinubu back for working against his (Fayemi) ministerial ambition.

“Fayemi does not hate Abraham, but he opted to fund Akeredolu just to show Tinubu he no longer enjoy the total control of the APC in the Southwest. He was the one who rallied El-Rufai and Fashola and conscripted them into what they latter termed; ‘operation stop Asiwaju.’

“El-Rufai acceded to Fayemi’s plot to stop Tinubu’s anointed candidates because of his 2019 presidential ambition and he operated clandestinely. Don’t forget that he needs Tinubu’s support to, but he is closer to the likes of Fayemi, Fashola, Governor Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun State and others who have fell out with Tinubu,” a source said.

Akeredolu's Candidacy Shaky; 7 Aspirants Reject Result, List Fake Delegate Names As Appeal C'ttee Holds In Abuja Today

Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu's All progressives Congress, APC Candidacy for the fast approaching governorship election in Ondo State may be shaky as the appeal committee will today begin sitting following petitions from SEVEN aggrieved aspirants who participated in the last gubernatorial primary election of the party.

This is as even a chieftain of the APC has revealed and listed some fake names concocted into the delegate list who may have participated in the election.

The APC’ Ondo Governorship Primary Appeal Committee has started sitting after confirming the receipt of two petitions as of Tuesday.

A member of the committee, Alhaji Musa Umar, confirmed this in an interview in Abuja on Wednesday, TodayNG reports

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He explained that the committee began sitting in line with the mandate given to it by the party.

Although an unconfirmed report claimed that the committee had received seven petitions, Umar could only confirm two.

He, however, said there were some petitions submitted to the party’s national secretariat which the committee was waiting to receive.

Umar said, “We have started sitting. I can only confirm two petitions which we received yesterday (Tuesday) but we understand there are others at the (party) secretariat which we are expecting will be brought for us to consider.”

He, however, declined to give further details because according to him, the committee’s work is still ongoing.

Earlier, some APC leaders from Ondo State had in a petition sent to the Appeal Committee called for the cancellation of the primary and the conduct of a fresh one.

Signatories to the petitions include the Chairman of the APC in Ondo Central Senatorial District, Mr. Adegboyega Adedipe; his counterpart from Ondo East, Mr. Akintunde Samuel and that of Ondo West, Mr. Adeola Ademulegun.

The petitioners had alleged that the delegates’ list was manipulated in favour of one of the candidates.

The petition partly read, “A strange delegate list was introduced on the night of the election after everybody had gone to sleep only for us to wake up in the morning of the election to see a massively corrupted delegates’ list.

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“Names of 47 per cent of delegates in Ondo East were either deleted or substituted with people who are unknown to the party as executive members.

“Some of the injected names were not even aware of the development and so did not come for the election.

“In all, a total number of 64 names were injected into the delegates’ list. The names were unknown to the party.

“For instance, somebody who never contested any election and some even unknown to the party suddenly became ward chairmen in wards four, six, two and seven of the Ondo East Local Government.

Reacting to the development, the APC National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Isunaso, said, “Nobody can react now. There is an appeal panel and party officials would make statement on the primary without the appeal (committee) concluding its work.

“Anything l say now can jeopardise the committee’s work. Let the appeal finish their work, then we can talk.”

Akintunde Temitope, an APC chieftain and the immediate past chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo East Local Government has revealed the alleged fake names that were injected into the delegates list used for the party’s governorship primary election on Saturday.

It will be recalled that one of the contestants, Chief Oke, had alleged that some “fake” delegates voted in the Ondo Primary.

According to Mr Temitope, a strange delegates list was introduced on the night of the election.

He said this in a petition to the Chairman of the Governorship Appeal Committee.

He said “names of 47 per cent of the legitimate delegates in Ondo East Local Government were either deleted or substituted with people who are unknown to the party as exco members. Some of the injected names are not even aware of the development and so did not come for the primary election.”

Temitope attached the list containing the names of ‘fake’ delegates. Those identified include Olagunju Kayode designated as Local Secretary of the APC; Barrister Oke, Legal Adviser; Dickson Adeyale Financial Secretary; Folasuyan Simon, Organising Secretary; Fatai Fagun, Assistant Publicity Secretary; Azees Rafiu, Assistant Youth Leader; Alhaji Adeniyi Ex-Officio (2) and Bayo Olafusi Ex-Officio (3).

In ward 1, the fake delegates identified were Akikuolie Omowale who claimed to be Ward Secretary; Arowolo Seto, Ward Treasurer; Idowu Adedoyin, Ward Financial Secretary; Nasiru Haruna, Ward Publicity Secretary and Akinmotimu Sina, Ward Youth Leader.

For Ward 3, the impersonators wereOdunayo Dada, Ward Secretary; Akintade Grace, Ward Treasurer, Sunny Hammed, Ward Financial Secretary; Ebenezer Gbadebo, Ward Publicity Secretary and Sunny Rasaki, Ward Youth Leader.

In Ward 4, the fake names identified  were Tijani Akeem Ward Chairman; Adebisi Murtala, Ward Vice Chairman; Akintunde Rotimi, Ward Secretary; Fagbenle Gbenga, Ward Financial Secretary; Olanrewaju Toyin, Ward Organising Secretary and Abidemi Odugbemi, Ward Woman Leader.

In Ward 5, Wiwuloku Ayodeji,  Ward Secretary; Caroline Olajide, Ward Treasurer; Olawunmi Oluwaseyi, Ward Financial Secretary;  Fredrick Uwabueze, Ward Publicity Secretary; Gabriel Michael Ward Welfare Secretary and Giwa Fidelis, Ward Youth  Leader.

For Ward 6, the fake delegates identified include Okoro Babatunde, Ward Chairman; Kingsley Ani, Ward Organising Secretary; Fibian Itodo, Ward Welfare Secretary and Mary Gabriel, Ward Woman Leader.

Ward 7 list contained Gbenga Akindugbagbe as Ward Chairman; Yinusa Jamiu, Ward Vice Chairman; John Adeyoriju, Ward Secretary; Peter Daniel, Ward Organising Secretar and Idowu Enipola, Ward Welfare Secretary.

Ward 8 contained the following fictitious names: Iyola Ayoade, Ward Secretary; Owolarafe Muruf, Ward Treasurer; Ajiboye Iyabo, Ward Financial Secretary; Azees Kolawole, Ward Organising Secretary and Lateef Saheed, Ward Youth Leader.

In Ward 9 the list include Akinsulire Ademola, Ward Secretary; Agbe Abel, Ward Treasurer; Ibikunle Taye, Ward Organising Secretary and Ganiyu Yunisa. Ward Youth Leader.

In Ward 10 the thre fake delegates identified were Lamidi Ajadi, Ward Financial Secretary; Kazeem Olagunju, Ward Publicity Secretary and Fasae Clement, Ward Youth Leader.

Meanwhile, one of the aspirants of the APC in Ondo State, Dr. Tunji Abayomi, has said the alleged error on the delegates’ list used for the last Saturday’s primary had nothing to do with the victory of the winner of the election, Rotimi Akeredolu.

Not satisfied with the result of the primary, two of the aspirants, Chief Olusola Oke and Dr. Segun Abraham as well as some other leaders of the party rejected the result on the grounds that the delegates’ list used for the exercise was allegedly doctored.

Abayomi, however, noted that Oke had a right of appeal which he could exercise but saying his claim on the delegates’ lists was unjustifiable and unnecessary.

Tinubu's Man, Abraham REJECTS Ondo Guber APC Result Despite Congratulating Akeredolu, Heads To Appeal

Despite being the first to have congratulated the winner of the Ondo State All progressives Congress gubernatorial election held on Saturday, which Rotimi Akeredolu was declared the winner, the first runner-up in the election, Mr. Olusegun Abraham has petitioned the appeal committee of the election site various irregularities that marred the election, News Punch understands

Abraham was widely believed to be Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu's favourite ahead of others in the election.

The result was earlier rejected by the second runner-up, Olusola Oke.

The result announced by the Election Committee headed by Jigawa State Governor  Muhammed Badaru Abubakar stated that  Akeredolu scored 669 votes. Abraham polled 635.

Abraham said he was prompted to challenge the result following the emergence of sordid facts on how the process leading to the primary election was manipulated and compromised. After wide consultation with his numerous supporters, Abraham decided to explore the internal mechanism of the party to seek redress.

Olusegun Abrahan in a statement signed by the Director-General of his campaign organisation Mr Olu Adegboro, reads: 

“It is no longer news that as a true democrat, imbued with the best spirit of sportsmanship, I congratulated Mr Rotimi Akeredolu, who purportedly emerged as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the September 3rd gubernatorial primary election in Ondo State in the face of palpable disbelief and surprise on the outcome of the primary election by my numerous supporters.

“The news however is that, sordid and staggering facts have since emerged on how the process leading to the primary election was manipulated and compromised. It is now beyond doubt that the delegate list used on the day of the primary election was doctored and strangely injected with a mind blowing number of delegates who are neither executive members of our party nor statutory delegates.

“To say the least, the manipulation of the delegate list, highly skewed accreditation process and the entire processes leading to the conduct of the primary election have cast the darkest stain on the result of the primary election held on the 3rd September, 2016.

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“Against this background, coupled with the change and integrity that our party preaches and practises, and having widely consulted with my numerous supporters, I have reached the hour of decision to fall back on the internal mechanism of our great party to seek redress so that the end of justice will be served and, more importantly, our democracy may endure. To this end, the outcome of the September 3rd APC governorship primaries in Ondo State is unacceptable and I hereby against same.

“The allegations that have sadly pelted the supposedly free and fair Saturday exercise, where 24 aspirants battled to pick the party’s ticket, include but not limited to delegates list tampering, fake delegates incursion, disenfranchising of rightful delegates, smuggling of illegal ballot papers into ballot count”, he concluded.

Tinubu, Aregbesola Fall Apart Over Akeredolu's Emergence? How Buhari Worked Against Tinubu's Man, Aggrieve Members Vow To Work For PDP

NEW TELEGRAPH - The political camp of the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, is in disarray following the emergence of Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN) as the governorship candidate of the party for the November 26 election in Ondo State.

Facts have also emerged on how some APC governors and ministers worked against Tinubu in the decisive primary. Akeredolu won the party’s primary election with 669 votes, defeating his closest opponent, Chief Olusegun Abraham, who scored 635 votes.

Chief Olusola Oke scored 576 votes and Senator Ajayi Boroffice scored 471 votes to come third and fourth respectively. It was learnt that the outcome of the primaries has strained the relationship between Tinubu and his political confidant, Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State.Many in the Tinubu’s political dynasty blamed the defeat of the APC leader’s anointed candidate, Abraham, on Aregbesola. As at Friday, Tinubu was confident that Abraham would emerge victorious with 805 votes.

Some of Tinubu’s associates believed that Aregbesola supported Oke with the understanding that Bola Ilori, his Special Adviser on Environment, would be made the deputy governorship candidate. But Aregbesola told New Telegraph that he didn’t work against Tinubu.

Impeccable sources told New Telegraph that there is now distrust within Tinubu’s camp, as many believed that Aregbesola and some others undermined the former Lagos governor in the Ondo primaries. The source said: “On August 22, when it was clear to Abraham that Aregbesola has his own agenda and was supporting Oke with the arrangement that if Oke becomes the governorship candidate, Ilori would become the deputy governor; Abraham had to call Tinubu and told him that everywhere he went he saw Aregbesola working for Oke.

“Also, on Tuesday, August 23, Chief Pius Akinyelure, the National Vice Chairman (South-West) called Tinubu in London that the Osun State governor was backing Oke.” The source said Aregbesola was influential in the party’s hierarchy because by the time they were putting APC together, there was no APC governor in Ondo State and Aregbesola was the one coordinating the state and other South- West states for the party. This, he said, made him to have lots of delegates under his control.

New Telegraph learnt that before the postponement of the primary election to last Saturday, Tinubu called Aregbesola from London and accused him of promoting Oke. But the governor denied the allegation. Despite Aregbesola’s defence, New Telegraph learnt that Tinubu said he did not want to hear anything and that if Abraham loses the primary election, their relationship would be badly damaged if not severed. New Telegraph learnt that it was this sort of threat that prompted Aregbesola to send his Deputy Chief of Staff, Gbenga Akano, to Ondo State.

It was learnt that Aregbesola sent Akano with substantial amount of money to Abraham last week Tuesday and he (Akano) remained until the day of the election. Aregbesola himself was in Akure on Thursday, two days before the primaries to support Tinubu’s candidate.

The governor, it was learnt, returned to Osogbo the same day with Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi who had earlier been on ground to support Abraham. The source alleged that while Aregbesola was working for Abraham, his adviser (Ilori) from Ondo town, was busy working for Oke.

The source added that the division in Tinubu’s camp was the major reason why the APC leader was humiliated in the primary election. According to the source, if Tinubu’s camp had worked together, they would have won the primary election because the difference between Akeredolu, the winner of the primary election and Abraham is 34 votes.

In Tinubu’s political family, the wife of the National Leader, Senator Oluremi and former interim national chairman of APC, Chief Bisi Akande, were die-hard supporters of Senator Robert Ajayi Boroffice while Aregbesola was also supporting Oke.

Another source said Akande met and cautioned Aregbesola when the governor was rooting for Oke. The source said what made Oke to score the high number of votes in the primary despite the fact that he was a new entrant into the party was the alleged 115 votes of Ile-Oluji and Ondo, which Ilori delivered to him. But Aregbesola denied supporting Oke.

The governor, speaking through his Director, Bureau of Communications, Mr. Semiu Okanlawon, denied supporting Oke in order to undermine Tinubu. According to him, “the insinuation is a strange allegation. I am aware there was a process, which has provided a winner.

The outcome of the exercise is left for those who took part in the exercise to abide by the result or challenge it, depending on what they saw. “Aregbesola is the governor of Osun, the issue of working against the interest of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu does not arise.”

Also, Mr. Temitope Akintunde, a staunch supporter of Ilori, denied the allegation. He said most of the delegates ascribed to Ilori were disenfranchised on the day of the election. The remaining, he said, voted for Abraham.

Besides, the division in Tinubu’s camp, the effort by the Presidency, represented by some ministers, and another South-West governor to undermine Tinubu ahead of 2019 general elections led to the defeat of his candidate.

It was learnt that some forces in the Presidency who saw Tinubu as being too powerful constituted a committee headed by a minister from the North to work and coordinate Akeredolu’s campaign in order to decimate Tinubu in the South-West.

The ministers and some APC governors were trying to create a third force in the South-West so as to influence who becomes the president in 2019, hence the need to demystify Tinubu. It was learnt that some of the ministers and governors funded Akeredolu’s campaign.

“One of the South-West governors, not Aregbesola, was the arrowhead of those who supported Akeredolu. He worked with some of the ministers both within the zone and outside. They provided the logistics for Akeredolu.

Some of them even ensured that other strong contenders did not step down for Tinubu’s candidate. The APC primary election is part of the battles for the 2019. Tinubu cannot continue to dictate the political direction of the zone,” one of those in the opposing camp told New Telegraph.

The source added that if Tinubu’s camp had put their eggs in one basket, they would have been able to win the primaries. Another factor that led to the defeat of Tinubu’s candidate was the way the Chairman of the Electoral Committee and Jigawa State governor, Badaru Abubakar, handled the process of the primary election.

Sources said Akinyelure and the state chairman, Mr. Isaacs Kekemeke, were not allowed to have a say in the conduct of the election. There were allegations that delegates were changed between the accreditation and voting points, prompting some aggrieved aspirants to be planning a joint petition to the national leadership of the party.

It was gathered that the second runner up, Oke, would lead the onslaught against the validity of the result. A petition by Oke would likely be submitted between today and tomorrow at the national secretariat of the party.

Apart from writing petition against the emergence of Akeredolu, the aggrieved aspirants are reaching out to Governor Olusegun Mimiko in order to see the possibility of working with him in the forthcoming election. Mimiko’s former Commissioner for Justice, Eyitayo Jegede, is the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate.

The aggrieved aspirants, according to a source in the know, said this is to prevent Akeredolu from becoming the governor as that may end their political career. For instance, Akeredolu already has his team and would not need either the party or the aspirants for the election. Some office holders, including senators and a member of House of Representatives, may kiss their return goodbye if Akeredolu emerges as the governor.

A source in the Akeredolu’s camp stated that they are making moves to appease Tinubu. “We know our oga is angry, but if it means all of us will go and prostrate before him (Tinubu), we will do that. Yes, we are aware that people in Tinubu’s camp are planning to work for Mimiko, but we will still make effort to reconcile with him. He is our leader. What has happened is just the beauty of democracy,” the source said.

Excerpted from NEW TELEGRAPH

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Tinubu Is Our Revered Leader, I Need His Blessing - Akereodolu Recants, Denies He Would Shock Tinubu's Report

Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, the Ondo State All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate has described Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as the party’s respected leader, who he is waiting for his blessing.

Popularly known as Aketi, Akeredolu has denied media reports that he said Tinubu would be shocked on the outcome of the result of the primary held at the weekend.

Enthused by the victory, the APC candidate who spoke with reporters after he was announced winner of the primary said he was surprised to read such report credited to him, saying going through the content of the report, there was no where he used such word.

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The former President of the Nigeria Bar Association (NBA) said he respects Tinubu as the party’s leader and he is always waiting for his blessing on whoever emerges as the APC candidate.

He said: “I never said so. If you read that interview, you will never see where I used such word.

“Tinubu is the leader of the party and I have respect for him.

“He was here in Ondo State during the last governorship election and which I contested as the candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN).

“He spent his money and his time and I am sure this time around, he will also be here to support me.

“I always believe that he is somebody that I am waiting to see his blessing on who will emerge from free and fair primary and God has endorsed me.”

The candidate was, however, confident that the party would go into the poll as a united family.

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Ondo APC Guber Election: Tinubu's Abraham Congratulates Akeredolu, Pledges Support As Olusola Oke Rejects Results

Dr. Olusegun Abraham, an aspirant believed to have been endorsed or anointed by the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has congratulated Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu the winner of the Ondo State chapter of APC gubernatorial primary election conducted on Saturday. 

Akeredolu defeated 23 other aspirants to emerge the party's flagbearer.

Abraham, while congratulating Akeredolu, in a statement he issued on Sunday, commended the electoral committee for conducting a hitch-free election.

He said, “My special regards and admiration for Alhaji Baderu Abubakar, the Governor of Jigawa State, and his team for their sterling quality and integrity in conducting the APC governorship primary in Ondo State.”

Abraham, who pledged to join hands with  Akeredolu to reposition the state, also assured the people of the state that the APC government would not disappoint them.

Toeing the path of Segun Abraha is Mr. Victor Olabimtan, both hailed the conduct of the exercise, saying the election was free and fair. They congratulated Akeredolu and pledged to support his governorship bid.

However, as reaction continues to trail the election, One of the governorship aspirants of the party, Chief Olusola Oke condemned the emergence of  Akeredolu as the party’s candidate for the governorship poll, faulting the result of the primary.

Speaking through his Director-General of his campaign, Mr. Bola Fisayo, on Sunday, Oke said the election was not a true reflection of the delegates that participated in the primary last Saturday, Punch Newspaper confirmed this

Oke was the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2012 governorship election. He specifically alleged that some names of the delegates were removed from the delegates’ list while non-delegates were allegedly allowed to vote.

He explained that the list of delegates handed over to the aspirants at a meeting with the Presidency was different from the list of delegates brought by the Chairman of the Election Committee, who is also the Jigawa State Governor, Alhaji Mohammed Abubakar.

According to him, the delegates’ list was shown to the aspirants at the eleventh hour and there was no adequate time to scrutinise the list by most of the aspirants.

He alleged further that about 110 names belonging to Oke’s camp were removed from both Ondo East and West Local Governments while their names were replaced with non-executive members of the party.

He said, “There was nothing we could do at that particular time. I can confirm to you that 80 per cent of those that cast their votes for Abraham came from Oke’s camp.

“The election did not represent the true position of the delegates, the accreditation gave room for manipulation and the whole process was laced with fraud and the result released did  not represent the true reflection of the delegates as non-delegates were allowed to participate in the election”

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Ondo APC Guber Primary: We'll Shock Tinubu Today, His Anointed'll Come 5th - Akeredolu Spits Fire Again, Reveal Shocking Secrets

Mr. Rotimi Akeredolu, a former Chairman of Nigeria Bar Association and the candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN in 2012 Ondo State governorship election has once again taken a swipe against the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, saying he would be shocked today at the result of the party's gubernatorial primary billed to hold today in Akure, signalling the crisis rocking the Ondo State chapter of the party seems to have no known end over the purported endorsement of Dr. Olusegun Abraham by Tinubu. 

Akeredolu in a fresh interview with Punch Newspaper preempted the party's primary election where a candidate will be elected when he said that Dr. Olusegun Abraham, a candidate believed to be been endorsed by the National leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu will come as far as fifth position in the race.

The former NBA chairman enraged when Punch Newspaper's Peter Dada mentioned a purported gang up against Tinubu's Man, Abraham. He said

"What do you mean by gang up? I am not ganging up against anybody and I don’t know whether some people are ganging up against anybody. What I know is that I am running for governorship and I am running to win the primary and I will win the primary."

"Gang up for what? Gang up against somebody who has no vote, somebody who is not known, somebody who cannot win, somebody who has no structure? Wherever it is he comes from, he cannot win. We don’t need to gang up against him; he would come in this election a distant fifth with all the support he gets. Even with every support they give him, he would come a distant fifth."

"All I know is that I am working to win and I would win the primary.".

On his recent outburst against Tinubu, Akeredolu did not mince word to reiterate that he was never endorsed by anybody, even Tinubu.

"I don’t know those who are saying so; I don’t know what they mean by endorsement this time around. There was never a time that I was endorsed by anybody. I keep explaining it to anybody that cares to listen that there was no time I was endorsed by anybody. We had a process that every candidate submitted to in 2012. That process is called caucus team. The caucus of the party interviewed and interacted with all those who had interests in being governor and by unanimous decision, the caucus team picked me." 

"There was no issue of endorsement. I have never sought anybody’s endorsement. I have never asked anybody to endorse me. But I have informed the leaders of the party that I am running. I informed Asiwaju, I informed Baba Bisi Akande and I informed the President of the country. I informed virtually all the leaders of the party including all the governors." 

"I did not ask them to endorse me. I only went to inform them. That was what happened. If I had sought for endorsement, I would have been disappointed. But since nobody endorsed me, there is nothing like disappointment."

"I will not say Asiwaju (Tinubu) supported me, many people will think he did. I knew in 2012 that he mentioned to me that he was the one that asked Olusegun Abraham to contest, so if in 2012, he brought Abraham, his friend, because they are close, then I don’t think I have to say more than that. 

"The possibility is there for anyone to think that since he (Tinubu) asked somebody to contest, maybe he was persuaded then and had to be part of the collective decision. I want to believe that Asiwaju must have been persuaded by our leaders. So I went into the 2012 election with the belief that Abraham was his candidate but like I said, it was possible for him to have been persuaded at the meetings when the committee took the decision. If the opinion of the committee favoured me, then there was nothing anybody could have done. We have leaders who can testify to this that Tinubu did not impose a candidate in 2012, it was the decision of the committee."

On he emerged as the party party candidate in 2012, Akeredolu said;

"Let me start from 2012. We operated under the Action Congress of Nigeria and the party in 2012 did not say it was going to conduct primary. In the ACN in 2012, nobody paid money for expression of interest but here, all aspirants have paid N2m each, except the lady among us who paid N1m. In the ACN, nobody obtained any form but here, we have all paid N5.5m each to obtain form to run this election except for the lady, who got it for free. When I say that I was not imposed or endorsed by anybody in 2012, I stand by it."

"I remember the operation and all of us who contested know it too. We attended meetings, not once, twice, three times or four times with the leadership of the party then; that was the style in the ACN. The leadership of the party formed a committee headed by Chief Akande and included all past governors like Tinubu, Niyi Adebayo, Segun Osoba, and probably Lam Adesina and governors of the ACN then." 

"So the committee needed to get a consensus candidate, so it was not one person that imposed the candidate. Tinubu couldn’t have imposed me; he couldn’t have endorsed me because like I said, there was a process and it was one that all of us submitted ourselves to."

"In an interview, I said there is a law that says that you cannot complain of an injury when you have voluntarily submitted yourself to the process. In that process all along, if not all the time, the committee usually asked us if we were all prepared to abide by its decision and accept whoever was chosen among us and everybody said yes. So, I know for a fact that in the meetings, because it was not just one meeting, people argued in support of different aspirants."

"If by consensus in that meeting, I was endorsed or chosen to be the candidate, then it was not one person choosing me as the candidate. So it was not one person that imposed Akeredolu on others. I am sure if you ask Asiwaju Ahmed Tinubu, he will tell you that he did not impose Akeredolu on others. What I’m trying to get at is that after I emerged as the consensus candidate, as a predominant leader of the party then, Asiwaju Tinubu engaged other aspirants and told them why the committee picked Akeredolu. And as the leader of the party then, he spent a fortune to assist us in the election in the state and nobody can take that away from him." 

"So when anybody comes around and says that Akeredolu was imposed on others, I always take pains to explain that I was not imposed on others. All of us who contested agreed to abide by the decision of the committee and not that Asiwaju said this is the candidate. In this particular case, Asiwaju had told all of us to go and run for the primary, and then, he came out to say he was endorsing a particular person, when all of us had spent money to obtain forms. There’s difference in the two cases. People must try to understand and many of us should be able to say the truth."

Read full interview from Punch Newspaper

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Ondo Guber: 2 Prominent Aspirants Step Down For Tinubu's Anointed, Dr. Olusegun Abraham; Why I Stepped Down - An Aspirant

He was said to have received the blessing of the national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; yesterday, Dr. Olusegun Abraham chances of clinching the Ondo State gubernatorial ticket for the forthcoming election got a major boost as two prominent co-aspirants to stepped down for him.

Mr Akinnola Akinyinka (Ondo Central) and Dr Paul Akintelure(Ondo South) announced that they had dropped out of the race to back Abraham to pick the ticket in tomorrow’s primary, The Nation Newspaper reports this morning.

Akintelure, the running mate to Mr Rotimi Akeredolu in the 2012 governorship race, said: “People have asked me why I stepped down to support Dr. Abraham as our next governor of Ondo State, and all of the time, I give them a simple response, Ondo State must work”.

“I’ve said it countless times that the reason why the party leadership, myself, some of the other aspirants and a majority of the delegates embrace Abraham is because of the fact that he practically understands the politics of economy, the thing that Ondo needs. A lot of people are neck deep into the politics of power in Ondo State, but, what we need is someone who understands the politics of economy, and in Abraham, we have that person”.

“Abraham is tested, he is competent, he also has the courage to lift Ondo from this doldrum to Eldorado. It is evident in his antecedent and expertise, and for the interest of Ondo and her own, I support him to be the next Governor of Ondo State”.

Akinnola said: “when I took the decision to join this race, I had a clear vision and desire in my mind for Ondo state and her people. A desire of transformative change that will make Ondo State become a state where things work, where the lives of the people are truly transformed for good. I was prepared to use my experience in business, infrastructure and expertise as a professional engineer to make this happen. Today, as I step down to throw my weight behind the candidacy of Olusegun Abraham, an astute man with a similar vision, I am confident, I have every confidence, that this vision to make Ondo truly transformed is intact”.

He added: “We all know that Abraham is an accomplished technocrat, a very successful businessman and a practising engineer who also has an understanding of the capital market, he has the abundant exposure and core expertise to make transformation happen in Ondo State. I am happy to back him and I promise to give maximum support to ensure victory on Saturday.

According to field reports, other aspirants who have joined the Abraham camp include: Adesida-Abiodun Aderin, Awodeyi-Akinsehinwa Akintola (Apata), and Akinrinsola Odumayo (Kabonti).

Abraham promised to work with the aspirants and in line with the progressive manifesto of the party, to bring what he termed as “complete transformation” of the state.

He said:”You can see the array of aspirants gunning to govern Ondo, professionals in their own rights. Dr. Paul is a successful medical practitioner with vested interests in other developmental fields, while Hon. Akinnola is a professional engineer who understands infrastructural development. With this set of people, our state, under the progressive government is set to undergo complete transformation, economically, in terms of infrastructure and as touching the welfare of the people”.

“As I’ve always said, it is time to embrace discerment and discard sentimemts, and then, employ experience, expertise, and exposure to lift Ondo out of squalor into buoyancy. Ondo is too blessed to be wallowing in this pool of poverty, owing salaries, accruing debts, and all. The plan is simple, revive our economy in practical terms, using what we have to become what we deserve to be”.

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