The All progressive congress (APC) may annul the result of the Ogun State governorship primaries recently held where House of Representatives member, Mr Adekunle Akinlade was declared winner by the chairman of the Ogun state chapter of the party, Chief Derin Adebiyi, in a parallel primary conducted on Tuesday.
Akinlade, the consensus candidate of the Yewa Elders Council and anointed candidate of the state governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, in a direct primary, polled 190,987 votes out of 201,620 valid votes cast across the 236 wards in the state.
But the National chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole speaking to journalists on Thursday in Abuja maintained that such result cannot stand since it was not declared by chairman of the electoral committee panel appointed by the party in Abuja.
According to him, “Primaries are not to be conducted by states governments. Primaries are to be conducted not by secretary to state governments; primaries are to be conducted not by states chairmen, primaries are to be conducted by the electoral panel.
The results of primaries are to be announced by the returning officer who chairs the panel sent to the state. That is the game. It is not a game of power. It’s a game of number. And God will give us the courage to do what we are supposed to do”.
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