Forward of the bye-election for the vacant seat of the Akoko North-West/North-East Federal Constituency on the Home of Representatives, Ifeoluwa Ehindero, has emerged because the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the election.
Ehindero defeated eight different aspirants to win the APC ticket within the election which was held on the Victory Faculty, Ikare, with 105 votes whereas one vote was scored by one of many candidates.
Ehindero can be representing the constituency within the Home of Representatives bye-election on February 3, 2024, which turned vacant after Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo was appointed the Minister of Inside by President Bola Tinubu.
In the meantime, eight of the 9 aspirants who participated within the major election have kicked towards the conduct of the first for the federal constituency, saying the method was fraught with irregularities and lacked transparency.
The aspirants which included; Hon. Olugbenga Araoyinbo, Haruna Adesina, Dr. Muyiwa Olusa, Alhaji Olanrewaju Kazeem, Bimbo Makinde, Prince Charles Babalola, Wale Owolabi and Lasisi Mohammed stated the end result of the first wouldn’t be acceptable to them.
They acknowledged that the election lacked transparency, diminished belief and challenged the suitable to vote of the voters within the election, noting that the get together failed to supply the delegate checklist earlier than the conduct of the first, saying not one of the aspirants see the delegates checklist earlier than the election.
However the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Hon Abdukadir M Nasir declared Mr. Ifeoluwa Ehindero because the candidate of the get together for Akoko North East/North-West federal constituency after the first.
Ehindero was declared the winner and scored 105 votes, out of 106 delegates that have been cleared for the train. One other aspirant, Mr. Makinde, scored one vote.
Ehindero, after declared the winner of the competition, witnessed by the Impartial Nationwide Electoral Fee (INEC) stated that he’s going to provide the folks illustration that may create a greater pedestal for current and future generations in all spheres.
In response to him, “I’m desirous to have the ability to affect life positively and to have the ability to create a better future for my technology as a result of my technology is a brand new technology”
Talking earlier than the first election, Nasir who was flanked by the APC Nationwide officers led by Barrister Pleasure Akang stated they have been duly supplied with the delegate checklist, which might be used for the election.
Nasir advised the aspirants that his responsibility was to conduct the first and to not question what occurred earlier than the get together major and what would happen after the first.
He suggested the aspirants to desk their grievances earlier than the enchantment committee who would deal with all issues arising from the competition, saying the mandate of the committee was to conduct the first election.
In his response, Araoyinbo stated the aspirants have been schemed out, saying the delegate checklist was generated by the get together on the native governments with out the data of the aspirants contesting within the major election.
He stated “As you’ll be able to see we have now been right here ready for the officers, ready to see the checklist. We’ve not been in a position to get it. Not till about 1:47 pm that the get together chairman introduced it right here. We requested them and so they stated the get together chairman on the state degree gave the checklist out.
“The best way ahead is that this election can’t maintain. We are able to’t settle for the end result of an election the place we don’t have the delegates checklist. They simply introduced the checklist proper now.
“With the conduct of the first, we’ll lose the election. One single particular person wrote the checklist of delegates from the 23 political wards. There was no degree taking part in floor. We’ve not seen the checklist as we communicate. It is a charade.This isn’t acceptable.”
Additionally, one other aspirant defined that the aspirants would have canvassed the delegates if that they had been conscious of who the delegates have been earlier than the conduct of the first.
He stated there was no congress on the ward degree to elect the delegates who voted within the election “as of now I don’t know who’re the delegates. I noticed the Chairman of my Native Authorities and one different particular person got here in with a paper. I used to be shocked that they didn’t conduct any congress.”
However reacting, a state get together official, denied all of the allegations that one single particular person generated the checklist, urging the aggrieved aspirants ought to strategy the enchantment committee and cease heating the polity.
He suggested them to be a real democrat and be a part of palms with the winner of the first assuring that the get together will win the bye election within the federal constituency.
The Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Alex Kalejaye stated the enchantment committee would begin sitting in Akure, the State capital to see to the grievances of the aspirants.
Kalejaye urged the aspirants to submit their grievances to the Attraction Panel.