Ogun State Governor Dapo Abiodun and his Lagos State counterpart Babajide Sanwo-Olu won the All Progressives Congress governorship primary on Thursday, securing tickets to run for a second term in their respective states.
Abidodun received 1,168 votes, defeating five other candidates in the primary election held at the Moshood Abiola stadium in Abeokuta, Ogun state.
Sanwo-Olu emerged as the APC 2023 Governorship primary winner at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena, formerly known as Onikan Stadium on Lagos Island.
Participating were five delegates from 245 wards spread across 20 recognized Local Government Areas. During the exercise, Sanwo-Olu received 1,170 votes and was declared the winner.
The exercise, however, was not without controversy, as members of the APC’s Lagos State Governorship Primary Election Committee barred two aspirants from the primary venue.
Alhaji Adamu Yuguda, Chairman of the five-man electoral committee, told journalists that the two aspirants in the race were barred from attending the primary election because they had not been cleared by the screening panel.
On the other hand, Adekunle Akinlade and Biyi Otegbeye, two Ogun State APC primary election aspirants, have rejected the chairmanship of the election committee and passed a vote of no confidence on the Chairman of the governorship election primaries. -19 for Wale CAPPA’s Report Reveals the Reaction
The aspirants expressed their reservations about the delegate list used for the exercise, which was held at the MKO stadium in Abeokuta, in a jointly signed press statement.
The two aspirants also complained that they were not included in the process of delegates selection for the primaries, alleging that only one aspirant collected all the delegate forms in the State.
“It was now surprising that the same Wale Ohu was again appointed to serve as the Chairman of the gubernatorial primary election in Ogun State. It is intriguing that out of the millions of members of the APC nationwide, Mr Ohu is having an exclusive preserve of chairmanship of all congresses in Ogun State.
“Our members who have bitterly complained about the partisan conduct of Mr Wale Ohu in all the congresses he had superintended in Ogun State are therefore not comfortable with the choice of him as Chairman of all the election panels.
“By his antecedent, we do not believe that he has the capacity to conduct an objective and impartial gubernatorial primary election,” the duo said in the statement.
