Crisis In Ondo APC Over Tinubu’s Alleged Endorsement Of Guber Candidate
Bola Ahmed Tinubu[/caption]
There is crisis in the Ondo state chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC), over the endorsement of a governorship candidate, Segun Abraham, by the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu.
One of the APC governorship aspirants in the state, Tunji Abayomi, who accused Tinubu of causing trouble in the party, said it was unfair of the national leader to order Ondo APC chieftains to help Abraham in the upcoming primaries.
Abayomi also told the APC leader not to repeat the same mistake he made in 2012 by selecting Chief Rotimi Akeredolu as his anointed candidate.
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In a letter to Tinubu, Abayomi said, “I maintain, based on the reliable information of the attendees, that your meeting with the party leaders go beyond mere a ‘meeting’ or ‘assembly and talk’ as observed in your letter. You told them who the candidate of the party would be and directed them to work for him assuring them of your financial support.
“I maintain that considering that all the aspirants had all been subjected to the same processes, including serious conditional payments, it would have been expected that as a national leader of the APC and especially as you have severally assured many aspirants who came to you, that the party would guarantee to all, equal protection in the process, you should have refrained from directing the party to support an aspirant.
“Your summoning of party officials to a meeting and your instruction to them to support one aspirant, in my humble view, violated the right to fairness. It amounted to undue influence to unjustly favour an aspirant.
“Perhaps, I need to add that the confusion in the APC in Ondo State at the moment, like it was in the ACN in 2012, emanated from the unfair directive you gave to the party on July 31, 2016.”
