The Ondo State Chapter of the All
Progressives Congress has said it will not participate in the
forthcoming local government election scheduled to hold on April 23,
2016 by the Ondo State Independent Electoral Commission.
The ODIEC Chairman, Prof. Olugbenga Ige,
last Friday announced the date for the conduct of the poll and promised
that the commission would conduct a free, fair and credible council
election.
The state chairman of the APC, Mr. Isaac
Kekemeke, who spoke at the Leaders’ Consultative Forum held at Akure
City Hall, Akure, the state capital, on Monday, said his party lacked
confidence in the ODIEC leadership, which, he alleged, had been
comprised by members of the Labour Party and the Peoples Democratic
Party in the state.
According to him, the Central Working
Committee of the party, the State Executive Committee and the expanded
executives met and decided to boycott the election.
Kekemeke added, “The conclusion reached
was that the election is a sham meant to trap our party. It is an
illegal election about to be conducted when there is a subsisting case
on the matter at the Supreme Court.
“Besides, (Governor Olusegun) Mimiko’s
ODIEC is composed of Labour Party/PDP membership card-carrying members.
Worse still, this LP/PDP government is highly deficient in character and
integrity.
“Therefore, to participate is to help
massage Mimiko’s ego, support illegality and to allow ourselves to be
distracted from our singular mission to wrest power from the PDP in a
few months time.”
On the forthcoming primary of the party
ahead the governorship poll in the state, the chairman promised that the
APC would not impose any candidate on the party.
He assured the APC members that the
party would conduct a free and fair primary to choose the candidate for
the governorship election.
Kekemeke stated, “The primary of the
party for picking the governorship standard bearer will be open, fair,
transparent and credible. The guidelines to be issued by the National
Working Committee and the National Executive Committee will be followed
strictly and a level-playing ground provided for all.
“There will be no imposition of
candidate; any story that I have a preferred candidate is imaginary and
delusionary. I have no capacity to impose a candidate on the party and I
sincerely do not think that anyone else has.”
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