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Prominent stakeholders shun Ogun APC exco as party adopts indirect primaries

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Our reporter

SOME prominent stakeholders in the Ogun State All Progressive Party [APC] shunned the extended Executive Committee meeting just as the meeting resolved to adopt the Indirect Primary option having failed in getting the consensus option to sail through.
Those said to have stayed away from the meeting included former DeputyGovernor, Prince Segun Adesegun and  some former members of the National Assembly, Hon. Olumide Osoba, Hon. Adekunle Adeyemi, Ho. Abudu Balogun and Hon Bukola Buraimoh among others  who were also invited for the meeting .
Some of them were said to have gone to Abuja for the screening exercise as aspirants seeking elective offices in the forthcoming primaries of the party.

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As predicted by New dawn, the meeting was called to adopt the indirect primary option as against the Direct option which most of the beneficiaries of the rejected consensus list were not comfortable with.
Most of those who stayed away for one reason or the other are known proponents of the Direct Primaries option which they argued would allow for the most popular aspirants to emerge as candidates for the 2019 elections.
A release after the meeting  however said the decision to adopt  the Indirect Primary option was “in view of the fact that a few days to the primary elections the updated membership register of all members of the party in all wards across the state is yet to be made available by the National Secretariat of our party.”

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The release signed by the State Publicity Secretary, Mr. Wole Elegbede added “the non availability of membership cards, the concern that a significant proportion of our dedicated members stand the sure risk of being disenfranchised, the infiltration of our party by  members of the opposition, unscrupulous elements and strange bed fellows illegal registration exercise of the party members and the absence of other necessary parameters for the conduct of a free, fair and successful direct primary”.
“These resolutions override the earlier resolution of the State Executive Committee passed on 5th September, 2018” Elegbede said.

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