Saturday, November 9, 2024 - Ahead of the November 16 governorship election in Ondo state, some All Progressives Congress (APC) groups, under the auspices of Ondo Patriots, have announced that they have commenced mobilisation in support of the candidate of the Social Democratic Party, Otunba Benson Akingboye.
The Coordinator of the group, Comrade Dele Oyewo, in a petition titled,
‘Protest against Gov. Aiyedatiwa and the party approach’, which was addressed
to the National Chairman of the APC, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, said the decision
was informed by the “questionable” emergence of the state governor, Lucky
Aiyedatiwa, as the candidate of the party.
The group noted that the national leadership of the party had taken side
with Aiyedatiwa at the “shallow primaries” conducted in April 2024.
Parts of the petition read: “The leadership of the various organising
groups within the party structure in the state for the umpteen time hereby
re-emphasise that it is going to be almost impossible to work with the party
and the governor on Nov. 16th gubernatorial election.
“But we discovered that the party leadership in Abuja is not in any way
concerned about the wellbeing of citizens of Ondo state, rather they prefer
their own choice of settlement over any form of resulting consequences.
“The voices of people in Ondo State – an appendages of the APC hereby
condemn what it described as derailment and gross misconduct against the party
ethics in line with the choice of Gov. Aiyedatiwa if truly we are different
from PDP and that we do to the latter what we preached before 2015 general
elections.
“We, the major APC groups in Ondo state have decided to pick Otunba
Benson Akingboye of the Social Democratic Party as our choice.
“However silent mobilisation has been ongoing but we decided this time
to inform our party because of the myriad of “I don’t care attitude” that the
APC leadership in Abuja have been displaying to matters like this that concerns
the youth of Ondo state long before.
“We cannot continue to die in silence and showcase total loyalty to the
destiny wasters in our state. Otunba Benson Akingboye is more or less an APC
family whose track and philosophy are similar to that of our dear president
Tinubu.
“He had on various platforms recognised His excellency, Bola Ahmed
Tinubu as an epitome of modern politics that Nigeria can have. If truly the
party leadership is concerned about the great future of our dear party and the
good people of Ondo state, it will see this write-up as a clarion call rather
than attack on the party.
“We are monitoring all the activities very closely from all quarters. We
pray that in a bid to favour gov. Aiyedatiwa, some people will not set Ondo
state on Fire.
“Meanwhile, what would eventually remove gov. Aiyedatiwa from office is
already cooking even when he is forcefully declared as the winner of the
election. We have told our people not to waste their precious votes!”
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