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Kwara LG Poll: Group Accuses APC State Chairman Of Imposing Candidate

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5 months ago

June 25, 2024

By Gloria Ikibah

Ahead of the Local Government Elections scheduled to hold on September 21, 2024, in Kwara State, the Concerned All Progressives Congress (APC) in Oke-ero has accused the State Chairman, Prince Sunday Fagbemi of imposition of candidate.

The group alleged that Fagbemi is backing the husband of his wife’s housemaid to emerge as the consensus candidate in Oke-ero at all costs.

This endorsement, the group claims, disregards the democratic process and traditions of the communities that constitute the LGA.

In a statement by its spokesperson, Mr Olarewaju Afolabi, the group named one Mr. James Fadipe was the aspirant who had been backed by the state APC chairman.

The group said this was after Fagbemi was alleged to have collected N10 million from the other two aspirants to influence their emergence as the consensus candidate.

The group stated that such a forceful imposition of an unpopular candidate on the people of Oke-ero is an aberration, thoughtless, and an affront, adding that Oke-ero has an age-long arrangement of how their chairmanship candidate usually emerges.

The group said that Fagbami’s move against the people of Oke-ero and the selection of who leads them at the council is a display of arrogance and devilish desires to control the politics of Oke-ero by all means.

According to the group, Fagbemi wants to put the cat before the horse in Oke-ero by leaving the community with 3 pooling units to pick a candidate from the community with 1 polling unit.

“It will be an aberration to reward the community that voted against APC in the 2019 and 2023 elections at the expense of the community that voted massively for APC.

The group described Fagbemi as a meddlesome interloper, stating that he should go and sort out his constituency, Ekiti LGA, rather than wanting to make Oke-ero the appendage of Ekiti.

The group stated that any attempt by Fagbemi to return Oke-ero to the PDP would be vehemently resisted, adding that the avoidance of the imposition of candidates on the party is a key ingredient of internal democracy.

“Anything short of this is a total detour from democratic norms and principles.

The group also queried Fadipe’s qualifications, describing him as mediocre and unfit to lead while calling for a more balanced and merit-based approach to political recruitment.

“The Fadipe that is being allegedly sponsored by the party chairman is mediocre. How could someone think in their wildest imagination that the affairs of Oke-ero would be handed over to such a person?

The group said there was a need for a revolutionary move to force those so-called stakeholders to know how to adopt an equilibrium model of political recruitment whenever faced with competition from political talents.

The group also called on Barr. Kayode Towoju, a Chieftain of APC in the LG, along with Femi Areku, an Aide to Governor Abdulrasaq Abdulrahman, and others to allow peace to reign in the LG, or their dubious character would be met with stiff resistance.

“The Oke-ero APC progressives demand a return to democratic processes and a rejection of candidate impositions to preserve the political integrity of their LGA.”

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VIDEO: God’s kingdom is your birthright it’s not negotiable -Bishop Elim(Part 1)

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60 minutes ago

November 17, 2024

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Bishop Godwin Elim, the Senior Pastor at Live for Christ, aka Lifting Assembly in Abuja has said God’s Kingdom is the birthright of believers as this is not negotiable.

Naijablitznews reports Bishop Elim made this assertion on Saturday in his sermon drawing vivid examples from bible passages and real life examples.

This is part one of the series to run through the week.

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BREAKING: APC Picks All 20 Chairmanship, 236 Councillorship Seats In Ogun LG Polls

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1 hour ago

November 17, 2024

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The All Progressives Congress, APC has won all 20 Chairmanship and 236 Councillorship seats in the Ogun LG Polls.

Naijablitznews reports that the Ogun State Independent Electoral Commission (OGSIEC) on Sunday, declared all the 20 chairmanship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) winners of Saturday’s local government elections conducted in the state.

The Chairman of the commission, Babatunde Osibodu also declared all 236 APC councillorship candidates as winners of the election while presenting the official results of the polls at the commission’s headquarters at Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta, the state capital.

Osibodu said the ruling party, APC, emerged victorious across all the 20 local government areas and 236 wards in the state by polling a total of 613,156 votes cast in the exercise which witnessed major political parties like the Accord Party (AP), African Action Congress (AAC), African Democratic Congress (ADC), Action Democratic Party (ADP) and the All Progressives Congress (APC), participating.

Other political parties that participated in the exercise included the Allied Peoples Movement (APM), All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), Labour Party (LP), Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Social Democratic Party (SDP), Young Progressive Party (YPP), Action People’s Party (APP), Action Alliance (AA), Boot Party (BP), People’s Redemption Party (PRP), National Rescue Movement (NRM) and Zenith Labour Party (ZLP).

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BREAKING: INEC declares Aiyedatiwa of APC winner of Ondo guber election

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1 hour ago

November 17, 2024

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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has declared Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa as the winner of the guber election conducted in Ondo State on Saturday.

Aiyedatiwa, who is the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the election.

He polled a total of 366,781 votes to defeat his closest rival in the election, Agboola Ajayi, who is the candidate of the People’s Democratic Party in the election.
The APC cleared all 18 local government areas.

While the PDP polled a total of 117,845 votes, the Labour Party (LP) polled 1,162 votes and the Zenith Labour Party (ZLP) polled 2,692 votes.

Prof Olayemi Akinwunmi announced the result of the Ondo governorship election at the State headquarters of INEC in Akure.