Outcry over result of revalidated APC members in Ondo
-APC rakes in N412.6m
-‘We have been deregistered’
There was outcry by members of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State over the result of the revalidation of members of the party conducted by national leadership of the party.
The result showed that the party raked in N412, 600, 000 from dues paid by members.
It showed that some wards in Akoko Northeast, Odigbo, Ese-Odo and Okitipupa have no registered members of the party.
The wards are Arogbo 1, 11 and 111 in Ese-Odo, Ikado II in Akoko Northeast, Ajue in Odigbo and Ayeka Igbidigbo in Okitipupa.
In Ore 11 ward, the Ondo APC has only two registered members.
The published revalidated membership list of the Ondo APC showed that a total of 172,025 members would participate in the direct primary of the party.
Ilaje local government, where Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa hails from, has 27,015 APC members while Akure South, the state capital has 8,441 revalidated members.
Ondo West has 22,122 members while Ese-Odo has 1084 revalidated members.
The lawmaker representing Odigbo Constituency 1 in the Ondo State House of Assembly, Hon Ifabiyi Samuel Olatunji, said he was shocked to see only two revalidated members from his ward.
According to him, “It is a fraud of the highest order. A situation in my ward, only two people registered and two people were revalidate. It is a lie from the pit of hell. We have 11 wards and we have registered members of the party. We have over 1000 registered APC members in my ward. To my surprise somebody brought only two registered members. This is a real shamble. We are building on zero level and fraud. Membership register is key to this election and situation where the membership register is faulty, the whole system is faulty.”
A former Commissioner for Water Resources, Olotu Fatai, who hails from Akoko Norh East said the membership revalidation was deregistration of members in disguise.
“It is laughable. In my local government, the figure release is 6000 whereas we have APC registered members of over 40,000. Is membership revalidation equal to deregistration of members of the party. The Committee came to deregister members of the party. I cannot fathom any reason for doing this. You have local government on water have over 20,000. Those of us on land given 6000. The exercise was shrouded in secrecy. We didn’t know when then came and the parameter used for the exercise. It seems the party has compromise the whole exercise and there is no ay you can get credible results from the figures released.”
