Governorship primary: Ogun APC accuses NWC of ‘frustrating treatment’

The Ogun chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) yesterday complained about the “frustrating and unsatisfactory treatment” meted out to it by the National Working Committee (NWC) over the governorship primaries.

Secretary to the State Government (SSG) Taiwo Adeoluwa expressed the position at a news conference in Abeokuta.

Adeoluwa who described himself as a stakeholder said he addressed the conference on behalf of the party and all the good people of the state.

The SSG recalled how the party in the state had once adopted the direct mode of primaries and later changed to indirect mode because of non-availability of essential materials, such as an updated membership register and membership cards necessary for the direct mode.

He said the state chapter later reversed its decision and embraced  the direct mode in conformity with the directive of the NWC of the party.

Adeoluwa noted that the NWC had continued to postpone the exercise which was originally scheduled for Saturday for the third time without official notice to the state party secretariat.

“For the third day running, the NWC has been rescheduling the governorship primaries and we have only been hearing this from the camp of one of the aspirants.

” On each occasion, we have mobilised our people, deployed facilities and arranged necessary logistics costing huge funds, time and energy to ensure a successful primary.

“Today, we have even shut down public primary and secondary schools when we thought  it would finally hold since the Election Committee from Abuja arrived in Abeokuta on Monday.”