Elections
Why APC Declared Ondo Guber Primary Inconclusive
By Alaba Olusola Oke
The All Progressives Congress, APC 2024 Governorship Primary Committee in Ondo State has declared the Saturday primary inconclusive.
This is contained in a statement by the Chairman of the Committee, Gov. Usman Ododo on Sunday morning.
The statement said that rerun election would take place in all the 13 wards of Okitipupa Local Government with total validated registered party members of 9,515.
“Having received reports of the primary election from the 203 Wards in the 18 Local Governments of Ondo State, the Primary Election Committee has decided that election will be conducted in all the 13 Wards of Okitipupa Local Government with total validated registered members of 9,515.
“ We have validated reports that the exercise did not hold in the local government due to late arrival of electoral materials and personnel as a result of logistics challenges.
“Election in Okitipupa Local Government shall be conducted 12 noon on Sunday 21st April 2024.
“The final collation of the results will be done thereafter”, the statement said.( NAN)
GWG.ng reports that before the development that led to the declaration of the Ondo governorship primary inconclusive that four of the APC aspirants – Chief Olusola Oke, SAN, Olugbenga Edema, Wale Akinterinwa, and Prof Dayo Faduyile – in separate comments had raised strong objections to the conduct of the primary election.
They alleged among others that electoral materials were not distributed to many of the 203 wards across the state.
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