The Ondo State governorship aspirants of the All Progressive Congress, APC, have kicked against plans to impose Dr. Segun Abraham on the party by the party’s National Leader, Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Ahead of the party’s primaries scheduled for August 27, 24 of the 25 Governorship aspirants while speaking through Dr Tunji Abayomi blamed Tinubu for trying to play dirty politics on them.
Recall that each of the aspirants had paid the sum of N7.5 million as nomination fees and are currently undergoing screening ahead of the primaries.
Abayomi while expressing dissatisfaction at the dictatorial attempt said: “I am speaking on behalf of the majority of the aspirants, we want to know whether this is true, and considering that we have a constitution that determines the procedure of electing a candidate.
“We are from Ondo State and we expect that our affairs should be largely controlled either by law or the people of Ondo State. So, we reject the government of leaders by the leaders to the privileged set of leaders. If Tinubu had now directed that this is the person he wants to use, that means that he is the one constituting government over the people to his own”.