Forward of the bye-election for the vacant seat of the Akoko South-West/North-East federal constituency on the Home of Representatives, Ifeoluwa Ehindero, has emerged because the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for the election.
On the election held at Victory Faculty, Ikare, Ehindero, polling 105 votes, defeated eight different aspirants to win the APC ticket.
Ehindero can be representing the occasion within the Home of Representatives bye election on February 3, 2024. The seat 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 have kicked towards the conduct of the first, saying the method was fraught with irregularities and lacked transparency.
The aspirants who included: Mr Olugbenga Araoyinbo, Haruna Adesina, Dr Muyiwa Olusa, Mr Olanrewaju Kazeem, Bimbo Makinde, Mr Charles Babalola, Wale Owolabi and Lasisi Mohammed, mentioned the end result of the first was not acceptable to them.
They argued that the election lacked transparency, decreased belief and challenged the best of the citizens to vote.
They additional claimed that the occasion failed to supply the delegate record earlier than the conduct of the first, saying not one of the aspirants noticed the delegates record earlier than the election.
However, the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Mr Abdukadir Nasir declared Mr Ifeoluwa Ehindero because the candidate of the occasion for Akoko Northeast/Northwest federal constituency the winner having scored 105 votes out of 106 delegates that have been cleared for the train.
One other aspirant, Makinde, polled one vote.
Ehindero, after being declared winner, mentioned he would give the individuals illustration to be able to create a greater pedestal for the current and future generations.
He mentioned: “My purpose is to affect lives positively, create a better future for my era as a result of my era is a brand new era.”
Talking earlier than the first, Nasir who was flanked by the APC nationwide officers led by Mr Pleasure Akang, mentioned they have been duly supplied with the delegate record, which might be used for the election.
Nasir informed the aspirants that his responsibility was to conduct the first, and to not question what occurred earlier than the train and what would happen after the first.
He suggested the aspirants to desk their grieviances earlier than the enchantment committee which has the mandate to deal with all issues arising from the competition.
In his response, Araoyinbo alleged that the opposite aspirants have been schemed out and that the delegate record was generated by the occasion on the native governments with out the information of the aspirants contesting within the major election.
He mentioned: “As you may see we’ve got been right here ready for the officers, ready to see the record. Now we have not been in a position to get it. Not till about 1:47 pm that the occasion chairman introduced it right here. We requested them they mentioned the occasion chairman on the state degree gave the record 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 record. They simply introduced the record proper now.
“With the conduct of the first, we are going to lose the election. One single individual wrote the record of delegates from the 23 political wards. There was no degree taking part in floor. Now we have not seen the record as we converse. This can be a charade.This isn’t acceptable.”
Additionally, one other aspirants 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 mentioned 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 individual got here in with a paper. I used to be stunned that they didn’t conduct any congress.”
However reacting, a state occasion official, denied all of the allegations that one single individual generated the record, urging the aggrieved aspirants ought to method the enchantment committee and cease heating the polity.
He suggested them to be a real democrat and be part of arms with the winner of the first assuring that the occasion will win the bye election within the federal constituency.
The Publicity Secretary of the APC, Mr Alex Kalejaye mentioned 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 Enchantment Panel.