Girls and Youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday staged a protest at Akure, the Ondo State capital, alleging the nationwide management of the get together of tampering with the end result of the primary election results.
The get together devoted, who turned out in massive numbers to dam the Ilesa-Owo/Benin expressway, insisted that the votes forged through the primary election have to be protected and that the desire of APC members throughout the 18 native authorities areas of Ondo State needs to be revered and protested by the nationwide management of the get together.
Based on them, “Ondo State performed a peaceable election; We are saying no to Nationwide Working Committee imposition. Respect the desire of the folks, let democracy prevail.
Addressing journalists through the protest, the Ondo State Commissioner for Girls Affairs and Social Growth, Seun Osamaye requested President Bola Tinubu to intervene and name the nationwide management of the get together to order.
Osamaye stated; “We are saying no imposition; let our vote depend; Ondo State say no Abuja results; Ondo State is on fireplace; we are saying no mago mago.
“We ladies of Ondo State have come out to precise our displeasure with the pretend record being circulated. We contemplate it pretend as a result of it doesn’t mirror the mandate of the folks. It doesn’t mirror the votes counted throughout the 203 wards of Ondo State. We all know these we voted for. We all know these we counted that received the elections. So why does the record being circulated on-line not mirror the folks’s mandate? That’s the query we have now come to ask this afternoon.
“It’s a peaceable protest and we are saying no to mago-mago enchantment. We are saying no to pretend enchantment. We are saying no to corner-corner enchantment. Individuals’s votes ought to depend. We voted massively for our candidates, and it ought to mirror within the record that has been pasted. However what we’re seeing on-line doesn’t mirror what we voted for, and that’s the reason we have now come in the present day.
“We all know President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is a president for ladies. We all know he’s a person who listens, a person of honest judgment, integrity, equity and justice. So what we’re saying is: let the folks’s votes matter. Let our votes depend. We are saying no to mago-mago enchantment and corner-corner enchantment. We voted throughout the 203 wards, and what was pasted on-line doesn’t mirror our mandate. That’s the reason, as girls of the APC in Ondo State, we have now come out to precise our concern that this injustice mustn’t stand. It’s in opposition to the spirit of equity, transparency and voting. Individuals’s votes are supposed to matter and depend.
“We don’t wish to settle for that our calls for won’t be met. As we speak’s date was written on the record that was circulated, so we’re saying that what was pasted may be very unsuitable. The APC Nationwide stated its resolution was primarily based on enchantment, so they need to make all the things clear. Tell us which enchantment, which mago-mago and corner-corner enchantment, doesn’t mirror the folks’s will. We’re demanding justice. We’re demanding equity. We’re demanding fairness. That’s what we’re saying as girls of the APC in Ondo State.”
Ojo Vivid, who additionally spoke on behalf of the protesting youths stated “the reality is that the South-West is a peaceable area and a stronghold of the President and Commander-in-Chief of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, the place he’ll get overwhelming help. So we don’t know who our nationwide get together chairman is working for, whether or not he’s working for the opposition, his brother Atiku Abubakar from the North, to defeat our candidate, the folks’s President from the South-West.
“In the event that they try to disrupt Nigeria’s peace by inciting chaos and disaster by our get together in Ondo State, let it’s on document that we, the folks, will resist. No person has defeated the military of the folks in historical past, and no person can defeat our folks in Ondo State. That’s sacrosanct.”
Talking in the identical vein, the Ondo State APC Girls Chief, Oluwayemisi Iji-Ayeola stated “we’re crying in opposition to injustice. We’re crying in opposition to one man dictating the destiny of Ondo State. We ladies are crying in opposition to one man altering the longer term of Ondo State. That’s the reason we’re out right here.
“We had a really fantastic election, a reputable election, and we picked our personal candidates from all of the 18 native authorities areas for the Nationwide Meeting and the Home of Meeting. Ordinarily, instantly after the election, the results ought to have been introduced. However this time round, we have now waited for nearly a month for the results of our candidates.
“Then, on Friday, surprisingly, individuals who weren’t even half of the election, individuals who didn’t contest, had their names introduced. How come? That introduced agony and sympathy from the ladies of Ondo State. It’s a slap on the get together in Ondo State, it’s a slap suggesting that we don’t know what we’re doing and can’t management our personal get together within the state. It’s also a slap on our chief, the Governor of Ondo State.
“If nothing is finished, our subsequent motion is that we’ll go on a rampage. Ondo State goes to be on fireplace if the results usually are not launched. We’re going to come out and present them that what occurred again then won’t repeat itself.
“Ondo State Girls stands with the Governor of Ondo State, Fortunate Aiyedatiwa.”
