About 11 APC local government
areas chairmen — with tens of party members— stormed the party secretariat in
Ajilosun area in Ado-Ekiti, on Monday morning to protest the disrupted
governorship primary election.
One of the chairmen who spoke said they have lost confidence in the Jide Awe led executive and
had inaugurated a caretaker committee to take over.
Awe is the chairman of the party.
“We discovered that there has
been lot of infractions on the part of Jide Awe led secretariat of the party,”
he said.
“One of the allegations is that
Jide Awe collected money to disrupt the peaceful election conducted on
Saturday. As a matter of fact, it was revealed that one of the executives was
with the miscreants that led others to snatch ballot boxes on the day, the
person of Demola Adewuse also known as Ooosha.
“He is the assistant youth leader
representing Ekiti central. Information has it that it was coordinated by our
own supposed former PRO, Olatunbosun Taiwo, who was giving miscreants tags to
enter and penetrate into the hall and disrupt the peaceful election in order to
satisfy their inordinate ambition and the sinister that they have.”
He added that the party
executives were trying to force a candidate on them.
“We have a congress today having
11 chairmen in attendance and our members across the 16 local governments here
today,” he said.
“All we are saying is that Jide
Awe-led executive can no longer lead us and that we need people of integrity
and impeccable character to lead us in the state and in our party. We also
demand that that election must be concluded immediately. No cancellation. We
say no to cancellation. But not under the supervision of Awe any longer who is already
biased and whose hands have been soiled.
“Apart from these infractions,
there has been mismanagement of funds on his part. Ask him that happened to the
N100m raised by our stakeholders. We raised that money for the management of
our office. Our office is dilapidated. Nothing is happening in the party. Since
Awe came on board for the fourth time, nothing has been happening and that is
why we are saying no to his reign in the party. And that is why we have set up
a caretaker committee to oversee the affairs of our party till another congress
will hold in August 2018. We are saying today that we are passing a vote of no
confidence on Jide Awe-led executive.”
He argued that by virtue of
article 21 of their constitution, the congress has the power to set up a
caretaker committee.
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