As the All Progressives Congress ( APC) prepares for its primary election in July 20 ahead of October 10, 2020 governorship election in Ondo state, governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu on Saturday said he and his camp are not afraid of any mode of primary election that will be used to pick the candidate of the party.
Akeredolu said he was prepared and even preferred the direct primary as against the insinuation that he is afraid of direct primary system.
He said “We are more prepared for direct more than those who clamour for direct primary. We don’t have any other plan than to go into the primary to win and then win the election.
It is laughable that the other aspirants are shouting direct primary when they are not even united on their so called consensus candidacy in the unity forum.
They are scared of resigning from their federal government appointments while some of them have been knkwn for their usual ways of using the opportunity and fund realized from governorship elections to acquire property in Abuja. ”
Akeredolu who spoke in Akure, the state capital through the state Commissioner for Information and Orientation, Donald Ojogo, said he is popular and had performed well to win any mode of primary election conducted by the APC.
It would be recalled that Some of the governorship Aspirants in the state and the Unity Forum leadership chaired by former Deputy Governor, Alhaji Alli Olanusi had advocated the adoption direct primary system, claiming that it was a mode that will enable all APC members to choose the party’s candidate for the polls.
While Direct primary had been approved for Edo state governorship primary slated for June, 2020,the National Secretariat of the APC said it has not taken final decision on the mode of primaries to adopt in picking its Ondo State governorship candidate.
But Addressing newsmen on behalf of the governor, Ojogo flanked by other members of the governor’s media team, pointed out that it was strange that some of the party’s chieftains who were parading themselves as governorship aspirants would not obtain nomination form while others were only popular on the social media.
