As the controversy over which mode of primary to be adopted in the Ogun State All Progressives Congress [APC] continue to rage, one of the Governorship aspirants in the state, Prince Dapo Abiodun has asked members of the party to stand up for the Direct option to allow their choice to count.
According to him, standing up to fight for their freedom and allowing their vote to count in choosing their candidate themselves and not allowing the Indirect option is the only way they can have a say in their party.
Prince Abiodun who stated this in Abeokuta South during his mobilization and consultation tour of council areas said no efforts should be spared in getting the most popular candidates for the party to be fielded in the 2019 polls.
Speaking on his relationship with Governor Ibikunle Amosun he recalled how he supported his ambition to be a governor saying “I was one of the people who went to plead for the incumbent governor to be allowed to govern the state in 2007 but we failed after that election. We realised we didn’t do stomach infrastructure then we tried again in 2011 with 11 state house of Assembly members around the state which I personally financed”
Abiodun, who wondered why the incumbent governor does not want to support his governorship ambition saying “I wonder where I’ve wronged the governor with my ambition, with all the support I gave him then, not that he gave me any post or my loyalist which I never questioned him for”.
He however challenged the people to fight for their freedom as electorates by allowing the party to conduct its direct primaries through the delegate system.
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He described the plan to elect flag bearers of the party for 2019 election through the delegate system as an indirect admittance of failure on the part of the outgoing governor adding that a government that is really in touch with the people would not be afraid of putting its fate in the hands of the electorates.
He promised to return party to the people if he is elected as the APC aspirant to run along with other party aspirants for 2019.
“I promise to return the party to the people because the party belong to the people and not individual or a family party that some people feels they should have control ”
He implored party members across the state not to give up on their clamor for direct primaries as recommended by the national leadership of the party, assuring them that there is no going back until the will of the people prevails.
He also urged the party faithful to use the ongoing continuous membership registration of the party via the internet to drive the membership of the party.
