- APC women leaders in Ogun state have vowed to storm Abuja on Saturday, October 27, naked if the leadership of the party fails to accept Akinlade as its governorship candidate for 2019
- Adekunle Akinlade is the anointed candidate of Governor Ibikunle Amosun but the party said Prince Dapo Abiodun won the primary and sent his name to INEC
- It was gathered that the state deputy governor, Yetunde Onanuga, promised to join the women for the Abuja protest
The All Progressives Congress (APC) women leaders in Ogun state have vowed to occupy the national secretariat of the party, Abuja, on Saturday, October 27, over issues surrounding the conduct and outcome of the party’s governorship primaries.
Nigerian Tribune reports that the women from the three senatorial districts of the state on Wednesday, October 24, staged protest against alleged injustice meted on the party in the state, following the announcement of Prince Dapo Abiodun as the party’s standard bearer in the 2019 governorship election.
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Legit.ng gathered that they threatened to occupy Abuja naked on the said day, if the leadership of the party failed to recognise Adekunle Akinlade as the party's candidate.
While addressing the protesters, armed with various placards with inscriptions such as "the minority cannot take charge over the majority, ‘we want justice in Ogun APC’, ‘Osinbajo, Oshiomhole, we want justice in Ogun state.
The state deputy governor, Yetunde Onanuga, was quoted to have promised to join the women for the Abuja protest.
Onanuga said: “I have seen the reason you came here in support of Honourable Abdulkabir Akinlade. For the past weeks, they have been helping us in Abuja and they will continue to help us.
“Let us exercise patience when it is time for us to go to Abuja, I’ll personally follow you to Abuja. I implore you all that by God’s grace, our mandate to Abdulkabir Akinlade will not be in vain.”
The state women leader, Sade Giwa, while speaking with newsmen at the NUJ secretariat, Oke-Ilewo, wondered why the National Working Committee of the party announced Abiodun as the winner of the election against Akinlade.
She claimed that Abiodun did not participate in the party’s primaries conducted by the State Executive Committee on October 2.
“On the 2nd of October, we voted for Hon Adekunle Akinlade during the primary election and he emerges as the winner, but the electoral committee announced Prince Dapo Abiodun, who was no where to be found during the election as the winner.
“The electoral committee should be warned, Adams Oshiomole, should be warned. He should return the mandate we gave to Akinlade and we are giving him till Friday to announce the correct result or else, by Saturday, we will meet at Abuja.
“We want the whole Nigeria to know that we in Ogun state are of Ogun standard and we cannot take anything apart from that. In the party primary recently conducted in Ogun, we voted for Adekunle Akinlade, we don’t know Dapo.
“Adekunle is the one that all the APC women voted for and anything apart from Akinlade is a no to us.
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“We are warning all the NWC led by Adams Oshiomole because women are going to take action if they fail to announce Akinlade as the party candidate before Friday. We are going to storm Abuja to express our displeasure and we will go naked,” she added.
Meanwhile, Legit.ng had previously reported that supporters of the All Progressives Congress (APC) under the aegis of Federation of Buhari Support Groups have accused some governors on the platform of the party of spearheading the revolt against the national chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.
The group made the allegation during a protest in support of Oshiomhole at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday, October 23.
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Source: Legit.ng
