With protesters, yesterday, laying
siege to the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in
support and denunciation of the party’s recent primaries, Governors Rotimi
Akeredolu (Ondo) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), yesterday, denounced new
narratives allegedly spun to pitch them against President Muhammadu Buhari. The
demonstrations took a different dimension when scores of female APC aspirants
stormed the party’s national secretariat and accused the national leadership of
the party of scamming them during the recently concluded primaries. The female
protesters who threatened to go against the ruling party if concrete steps were
not taken to reverse their situation, said even after being made to cough out
millions for the purchase of forms, they were schemed out of participating in
the primaries. However, a little respite came the way of the embattled National
Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, as he, yesterday, received
support from other party activists who stormed the secretariat to pledge support
for him. The demonstrators representing several groups under the aegis of the
Federation of Buhari Support Groups picked out Governor Akeredolu of Ondo State
of being behind the demonstrations against Oshiomhole. That assertion was
immediately dismissed by the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Yemi
Olowolabi, who described the claim as fallacious and against the grain of the
governor’s support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term. Meanwhile the
reported meeting of APC governors scheduled to hold in Abuja for the purpose of
mobilising signatures to force a National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting
failed to hold yesterday. Sources said that the aggrieved governors might have
decided to be more subtle in their plans against the national chairman in the
face of the apparent body movement of the president who is yet to give a
definite signal for his dismissal.With protesters, yesterday, laying
siege to the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in
support and denunciation of the party’s recent primaries, Governors Rotimi
Akeredolu (Ondo) and Ibikunle Amosun (Ogun), yesterday, denounced new
narratives allegedly spun to pitch them against President Muhammadu Buhari. The
demonstrations took a different dimension when scores of female APC aspirants
stormed the party’s national secretariat and accused the national leadership of
the party of scamming them during the recently concluded primaries. The female
protesters who threatened to go against the ruling party if concrete steps were
not taken to reverse their situation, said even after being made to cough out
millions for the purchase of forms, they were schemed out of participating in
the primaries. However, a little respite came the way of the embattled National
Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, as he, yesterday, received
support from other party activists who stormed the secretariat to pledge support
for him. The demonstrators representing several groups under the aegis of the
Federation of Buhari Support Groups picked out Governor Akeredolu of Ondo State
of being behind the demonstrations against Oshiomhole. That assertion was
immediately dismissed by the Ondo State Commissioner for Information, Mr. Yemi
Olowolabi, who described the claim as fallacious and against the grain of the
governor’s support for President Muhammadu Buhari’s second term. Meanwhile the
reported meeting of APC governors scheduled to hold in Abuja for the purpose of
mobilising signatures to force a National Executive Committee, NEC, meeting
failed to hold yesterday. Sources said that the aggrieved governors might have
decided to be more subtle in their plans against the national chairman in the
face of the apparent body movement of the president who is yet to give a
definite signal for his dismissal.