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The runner-up in the September 3, 2016 governorship primary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State, Olusegun Abraham, has appealed to his supporters and stakeholders who were aggrieved over the outcome of the Ward Congress in the state, not to dump the party.
Some party members across the 18 local government areas of the state have threatened to dump the party because of what they called unfair treatment during the last Saturday ward congress in the state.
They also accused the Congress Committee led by Hon. Komsol Longgap of conniving with the leadership of the APC at manipulating the exercise in favour of Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu loyalists at the detriment of other party members.
But in a statement issued to journalists in Akure, the state capital, Abraham described the congress as “another show of shame and another form of corruption that has become the Iroko tree in Ondo State.”
Abraham said, “We can see from the last election that these people are so timid and know that they are unpopular to the extent of running away from democratic process of electing officers into our various wards.”
According to him, “They didn’t allow the forms to get to those that have paid. Only one or two people in their midst paid for the forms and began to writes names of their people into it to fill the wards positions.
“It is a clear cut indication that they are not on ground. It shows that they are fake and their administration is fake. They think they have conquered now, but I tell you, Comrades, leaders, that we should not be weary and lose hope because when the wicked prosper, it is for their destruction.”
Abraham, who is challenging the emergence of Akeredolu at the Federal High Court in Abuja, however, urged the party supporters not leave the party, assuring that he would soon retake the party at the appropriate time.
His words: “Do not leave the party because, we shall retake our party at appropriate time. We know that God will give us victory at the appropriate time. Stand up for God.
“Those who stand up for justice can never be disgraced but those who embrace injustice would become the foot note of history. One with God is majority. I appealed to all our supporters in the state and outside the state to be law abiding.
“These people have the brawl but we have the brain, they have the power but we have God. Our God is a God that pays back those who sow bitterness into the society.
“We know the bitterness they have sown for the pregnant women who have no means of livelihood ,for the students that were trying to survive that they are taking away from school and yet, they squandered our resources.”
YOMI AYELESO, Akure
