Ekiti APC primary didn’t hold, we’ll challenge outcome – Bamidele

 

Ekiti APC primary didn’t hold, we’ll challenge outcome – Bamidele

 

 

A National Assembly member and All Progressives Congress governorship aspirant in Ekiti State, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele, said on Sunday that the alleged abortion of democracy in Thursday’s APC primary election in the state would be subjected to legal scrutiny.

Bamidele insisted that no election was held on January 27 and that the figures reeled out by Governor Abubakar Badaru-led Primary Election Committee were allegedly fabricated.

The National Assembly member, in a statement titled, ‘I will challenge Ekiti APC gov primary legally’, said, “We are of course taking immediate steps within the confines of our party constitution and the law to seek redress for this blatant abuse of trust and due process by the state actors”.

Bamidele and six other aspirants had on Thursday protested and called for the suspension of the election, saying the list of members of local government and ward committees to be used as electoral officers were supporters of an aspirant.

 

However, Badaru had on Thursday night announced the results of the election and declared a former Secretary to Ekiti State Government, Biodun Oyebanji, winner of the exercise and returned him as the APC candidate.

But Bamidele said it was regrettable that the process of conducting the primary was “hijacked, truncated, compromised and bastardised by those at the helm of affairs in Ekiti”, which he said was tantamount to a complete abuse of trust and leadership.

He said, “It is public knowledge that no primary election took place on Thursday, 27th January 2022, but yet, rather disappointedly, results were announced based on concocted and fictitious vote counts.