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    Ekiti: Police takeover APC secretariat after election fiasco

    Chronicle EditorBy Chronicle EditorMay 7, 2018No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Police reinforcement has been sent to the APC secretariat to forestall a breakdown of law and order in Ekiti

    The crisis rocking the Ekiti State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) after Saturday’s inconclusive primary took a different dimension on Monday as police have sealed the party’s secretariat.

    The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that protesters, who claimed to be sympathetic to the aspiration of the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr Kayode Fayemi, had besieged the secretariat on the Ajilosun-Ikere road where they announced the removal of the state executives led by Chief Jide Awe.



    NAN reports that the protesters also announced the immediate formation of a pro-Fayemi caretaker committee.

    Armed policemen, however, arrived the secretariat shortly and drove everyone out before sealing off the party secretariat.

    The protesters said they were at the secretariat to register their disapproval over the conduct of the members of the State Working Committee.

    The protesters, who brandished placards with various inscriptions, also passed vote of no confidence on Awe and the party’s spokesman, Taiwo Olatunbosun, alleging that they were supporting a particular aspirant.

    Relying on Article 21 (7) of the party’s constitution, the protesters disbanded the SWC and set up a Caretaker Committee headed by the APC Chairman in Ise/Orun Local Government Area, Mr Michael Egunjobi.

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    The protesters also laced the gate of the party with fetish materials made from palm oil and egg.

    Awe, who was said to have narrowly escaped assault by the irate party members, was ferried to safety from the secretariat by mobile policemen.

    As at the time of filing this report, police vans were still stationed at the secretariat which was under lock and key.

    Meanwhile, no fewer than 27 aspirants have rejected the position canvassed by the NWC of the party that the botched primary would continue from where it ended on Saturday.

    Some of the aspirants led by former governor Segun Oni on Monday met at a location in Ado Ekiti and rejected the position of the NWC that the committee which conducted the primary should return and complete the exercise.

    The aspirants, who were reacting to a statement credited to the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, said that the ballot cast on Saturday in five local governments before the violence erupted had been rendered invalid.

    Among those present at the forum, apart from Oni, were Senator Babafemi Ojudu, Opeyemi Bamidele, Bimbo Daramola, Senator Ayo Arise, Senator Gbenga Aluko, Kola Alabi, Muyiwa Olumilua, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, Debo Ranti Ajayi and Dr Bayo Orire.

    The spokesperson for the group, Dr Mojisola Yaya-Kolade, said the fact that the votes were not counted, collated and announced at the venue, had rendered the process invalid.

    She declared that the 27 aspirants would not accept attempts to validate unverified results of the few delegates that had cast their votes on Saturday neither would they accept the Tanko Al-Makura-led committee again as umpire.

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