APC: Sadare fumes over primary election fallout at Egbeda

From Ogundele Olanrewaju

The Aspirant All Progressive Congress (APC) of Egbeda State Constituency in the Oyo state house of Assembly, Hon. Olawale Sadare has declared that there is no conduct of party primary election to produce candidate of the party at the forthcoming 2023 general election.

Hon. Sadare who is among the six aspirants contesting for the candidacy of the party for Egbeda State Constituency, made the declaration to debunked the rumors filtering the airwaves that primary election was held at the centre

Hon. Sadare explained that as all the aspirants were expecting the committee to conduct the primary to appeared at the election ground noting that no one was around to conduct the election till dawn.

He stated that “Pointedly, we looked forward to the Thursday 26th of May, 2022 date announced by APC headquarters for the conduct of party primaries to pick candidates for the state house of Assembly seats across the country.

“Our local chapter was asked to mobilize concerned party faithful to the secretariat of APC in Egbeda local government located at opposite Toun Memorial Hospital along new Ife road, Ibadan and this was we did diligently even as we expected the timely release of the delegate list which is required for the conduct of the desired voting exercise”.

Hon. Sadare continued and said “To my chargrin, there was nobody on ground to either furnish us with the needed information on the delegate list or how the state house of Assembly primary would be carried out”.

The Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi led committee, we reliably gathered, only had the mandate to conduct Oyo APC gubernatorial primary while another committee,
was responsible for the conduct of the House of Assembly Aspirant primary”.

“Uptill this present moment , nobody can say anything about the arrangement for the conduct of the exercise particularly in Egbeda State Constituency and other 31constituencies across the state”.

He added that “Meanwhile all efforts made to obtain credible information as to why the exercise could not hold due to the non- appearance of any relevant officials have not yield any desired fruit”.

Hon. Sadare implored on the Afikuyomi-led committee to urgently attend to the matter with a view to call on the attention of the appropriate organ of the party at the centre to see to the ugly scenario and offer an advise on the need to conduct a free, fair and acceptable primary for all the six aspirants inorder for the party not to miss the golden opportunity to present a candidate for forthcoming 2023 election.