Heavy Protest in Ondo As APC Members Reject National Decision for Primaries
The
protesters are majorly those in top offices in the state’s All Progressive
Congress, APC party. They are protesting in rejection to the decision by the
national level of the party to have an indirect primary election in the primary
election of the party slated for the 20th of July 2020.
The
protest is pronounced heavy as about eleven (11) among all the gubernatorial
aspirants in the All Progressive Congress, APC are also rejecting the decision
for indirect primaries.
The
leaders of the protest Rotimi Ogunleye and Barrister Segun Ogodo maintained
that, the protest was to show rejection and dissatisfaction to the decision
from the national level to have an indirect primary come the 20th of July 2020.
They
preferred the direct primary, to them, this because the Ondo state All
progressive Congress, APC is made up of two (2) different factions. Stating also
that these factions have different executives.
They
said it would be biased to have an indirect primary done, knowing about the two
different factions.
A
statement from the leaders of the protest, Rotimi Ogunleye and Barrister Segun
Ogodo reads;
“all the APC members want direct primary because there were two parallel executives, saying for the sake of equity, the wish of the majority of members should be respected. Without equity the whole process would be thwarted.”
“We are asking for equity, the caretaker committee should listen to the 10 governorship aspirants, they must not adopt direct primary because they know the mood of the members in Ondo State. They must not adopt a mode that will give advantage to a certain aspirant over others, that is why we say we want equity.”
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