Ondo APC Primary: Don’t dwell on the past, Ganduje begs Jimoh Ibrahim, Oke, others, some walked out

 

It is not yet uhuru for Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa who recently emerged as the Governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, as some aggrieved aspirants staged a walk out during a group photograph in a meeting in Abuja believed to be for reconciliation.

It would be recalled that a peace meeting scheduled for 2pm today at the party’s National Secretariat in Abuja, was held by the APC Chairman, Alhaji Umaru Ganduje with the aspirants.

The meeting, it was reliably learnt, ended in deadlock as the unhappy aspirants were said to have expressed their displeasure with the conduct of the election allegedly marred by irregularities.

A source inside the Secretariat said some aspirants angrily walked out of the meeting after they were told to take a group photograph.

The source also hinted that the “disgruntled Aspirants left and no concrete resolution, it ended in deadlock“.

Speaking with one of the Aspirants who craved anonymity, he said nothing concrete was achieved so Aiyedatiwa is not yet of the hook”

National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, had pleaded with aggrieved aspirants who lost out in last weekend’s governorship primary of the party not to dwell on the past for the victory of the APC in the general elections.

Ganduje had made an appeal at the meeting with the aggrieved aspirants and party standard-bearer, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa to allow peace to reign and work together.

Kogi State Governor, Usman Ododo and leader of the Primary Committee had on Tuesday submitted his team report amidst protests at the party secretariat in Akure and petitions submitted to the Appeal panel by some of the aspirants.

Ganduje, who stated that the focus of the APC should be how to win the November 16 off-season elections, said he did not call the peace meeting to dwell on what has happened, but on how to make the party chieftains work as a team in the forthcoming elections.

He said: “I have to thank you for honouring our invitation in the shortest time and also considering the emotional distress as a result of the primary conducted in few days.

The purpose of this dialogue is to appeal, it isn’t to dwell on what has happened or what hasn’t happened; what is correct and not correct

If we dwell into that, there are professors amongst us and members of the learned community, SAN, even Engineers. We, who are less educated, the controversy won’t favour us considering the galaxy of people here.

“Our own is to appeal to you. For those of us insiders, it is our party that is the ruling party in Ondo State and we are managers of our party in Nigeria. So we are an interested party. Our prayer is that our party, your party should be the ruling party in Ondo State. It is already a ruling party our prayer is that it continues to be a ruling party in Ondo State.

“So, we are here to appeal to you, so that we succeed in maintaining the state as APC state. We are all practitioners, I remember that I once contested and after 16 years, I won. So, I can’t call you lost aspirants because you can win tomorrow.”

The meeting later dissolved into a closed-door session.

Apart from the Ondo State Governor and candidate in next November elections, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, aspirants at the meeting include the senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Jimoh Ibrahim;  Olusola Oke SAN;  former President of Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Francis Faduyile; a mechanical engineer, Dr Funmilayo Waheed-Adekojo.

Others are Dr Soji Ehinlanwo, Akinfolarin Samuel, Adewale Akinterinwa, Olugbenga Edema,  Brig. Gen. Ohunyeye Olamide (retd), Oladiran Iyatan and Engineer Ifeoluwa Oyedele.

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