By Omeiza Ajayi
ABUJA: The disaster rocking the All Progressives Congress APC in Osun State deepened on Saturday after six of the seven disqualified governorship aspirants, led by former Nationwide Secretary of the get together, Senator Iyiola Omisore, rejected the choice of the screening panel, describing it as a politically-motivated hatchet job that threatens the get together’s electoral probabilities.
Solely two of the 9 aspirants who appeared earlier than the screening committee had been cleared, whereas seven—together with Omisore—had been disqualified. Omooba Dotun Babayemi was not a part of the complainants.
Talking on behalf of the aggrieved aspirants, Omisore dismissed the report as “the jokest report of the 12 months,” alleging that the panel submitted a number of contradictory paperwork and that the model taken to the get together secretariat was not the genuine report.
“We’re conscious that the panel members have two, three reviews. The one taken to the secretariat wasn’t the unique report. As we converse as we speak, none of us has seen their report or why we had been disqualified,” Omisore mentioned, insisting that their political pedigree made the choice laughable.
“You possibly can see for your self that if you disqualify individuals like us in any contest, the place will we go from there? The get together is pointing at failure”, he added.
The previous APC Nationwide Secretary additional made a damning allegation in opposition to the chairman of the screening panel, claiming he admitted that the Minister of Marine and Blue Economic system and former Osun State governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, ordered that each one the aspirants be disqualified to pave the best way for his most well-liked candidate, Wale Oyebamiji.
“He instructed us that Minister Gboyega Oyetola referred to as him that they have to disqualify all of us as a result of he desires his lackey, his poster boy, Oyebamiji,” Omisore mentioned.
When requested to make clear whether or not the panel chairman certainly made such a confession, he responded, “Sure, he instructed us that he was beneath strain. Sadly, we’re in it collectively.”
Omisore, who has thus far been the one one among the many disqualified aspirants to satisfy with the enchantment panel, mentioned he demanded to know the precise allegations in opposition to them since none had been communicated.
In response to him, the declare that they did not safe the required 5 nominators per native authorities was baseless.
“The regulation says he who alleges should show. They need to have used one other technique to disqualify us,” he mentioned.
Though the screening report contained a proviso empowering the Nationwide Working Committee NWC to overrule the panel, Omisore rejected any hypothesis that the NWC would possibly uphold the disqualification.
“You possibly can’t shave my head for me. Why don’t you say the NWC will cancel the report of the panel? Why are you pessimistic?
“The NWC in their very own knowledge have the record of our get together members, and we’ve over 13,000 members who’re financiers. All of us aspirants are responsible of the identical factor, the identical system, the identical approach. That’s the difficulty, and it requires warning”, he mentioned.
Requested in regards to the implication of the disaster for the get together’s probabilities within the forthcoming governorship election, Omisore was blunt, pointing to even media reviews acknowledging the divisions inside the APC.
“You reported that the get together is factionalized. Even the committee wrote there that the get together is more likely to lose the election. So what are you speaking about?” he mentioned.
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