The primary election of the All Progressive Congress (APC) to pick the party’s representative for the House of Representatives election next year in Lagelu/Akinyele federal constituency ended stalemate on Friday as the three aspirants scored the same number of votes.
While announcing the result of the primary election, the Chairman of the Electoral Committee, Mr. Ayobami Tirimisiyu, announced that Hassan Olawale Giwa, scored 31 votes, Olasupo Philips David, 31 votes, Adeyemo Modinat Temitope, 31 and Akinmoyede Lafisoye Wasiu, who had gone to stage a parallel primary, 0 vote.
While 4 votes were void. Tirimisiyu further announced that the number of delegates are 130, while the total number of votes cast were 97. Speaking on the development, a leader of the party in Lagelu Local Government, Honourable Remi Adebayo, described the outcome of the election as healthy for internal democracy, stating that the aspirants involved will go back and rejig ahead of a fresh election which will come up as soon as possible.
Meanwhile, according to the outcome of another primary election held at Lalupon, Lafisoye Akinmoyede polled 92 votes out of 97 total votes cast to defeat Hazzan Olawale Giwa, who scored 1 vote, Olasupo Phillips David polled 1 vote while Adeyemo Modinat Temitope scored zero, while three votes were voided. Reacting to another primary election, held elsewhere in which a former Chief Whip of the Oyo State House of Assembly emerged victorious, Adebayo described it as an excuse by the lawmaker to save himself from humilation. Adebayo said:”The primary election was supposed to be among four aspirants, and it was supposed be held at an agreed venue, and only one aspirant, Lafisoye Akinmoyede, out of four went on to organise another one at his own backyard and he declared himself winner, what do we call that? It is nothing but a charade.
Meanwhile, aspirants jostling for the All Progressive Congress (APC) ticket to contest the Atisbo/Saki East state constituency seat in the Oyo State House of Asembly in next year’s general elections, have called for a fresh election as the one scheduled for Friday could not hold as scheduled.
The concerned aspirants are: Atilola Babatunde; Niyi Olabiyi; Ogunwale Ademola; Yakubu Busari and Babatunde Falola. The primary election slated for Tede Town Hall failed to hold, as the aspirants, delegates and other members waited for several hours for officials saddled with the responsibility of conducting the exercise without any of them in sight despite the presence of security personnel both Police, civil defence Amotekun and other security personnel.