The Dr Willams Toyin Akanle Campaign Organization for the Kogi West Senatorial District has described Thursday’s primaries held in Kabba as a sham.
In a statement signed by Dayo Akanmode, Director General Campaign for the organization, said it has in the past weeks inundated the APC national secretariat of the alleged plan to imposition.
Similarly in Kogi Central, one of the party aspirants for the senatorial district’s ticket, Mallam Yusuf Haruna, rejected the process, describing it as a fraud.
He alleged that all the five local government administrators in the Kogi Central stood as agent to Alhaji Yakubu Oseni, the eventual winner of the exercise.
According to him: “They were busy writing name for delegates and ordered them to vote for their preferred candidates.
“After mounting pressure on the delegates, those that still refused to sell their conscience were disenfranchised and denied entry to election venue.
“We make bold to state that the plan to begin the election by 3am, even when all the aspirants all agreed for a shift of the election to Thursday owing to delayed commencement and inconsistencies surrounding the poll, only for result to be announced.
“It should also be noted that as at the time the voting commenced many of the delegates had left. One begins to wonder how the over one thousand seven hundred delegates was manufactured.”
According to the Akanle group, other aspirants were locked out of the the discovered venue of the primaries for over twenty minutes when information leaked that the exercise was holding at another, signaling that the plan to rig the poll for a preferred candidate became manifest.”
The chairman for the Kogi APC primary, Chief Francis Inegbiniki however commended the outcome, saying that the exercise was free fair and credible.
Speaking with reporters in Okene, he described the exercise as open and transparent.
Credit: The Nation
