Edo APC assembly aspirants kick against party on automatic tickets for non-inaugurated members

Crisis hits the Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as some aspirants for the Edo State House of Assembly, on Monday, protested the directive of the leadership of the party that they should step down their ambition for automatic tickets for the 15 members elected under the party’s platform in 2019 out of which 14 of them were not inaugurated.

It would be recalled that the1 APC members elected into the assembly, who were loyal to the faction of the party led by the then National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, refused to be inaugurated on June 17, 2019, when Governor Godwin Obaseki issued the proclamation order for the assembly.

One of the 15, later presented himself for the inauguration but refused to decamp with Governor Obaseki to the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the wake of the disqualification of the governor for a second term and had also stopped to attend the sitting of the House, thus the remaining non-inaugurated members elect to take the appellation G-14 while seeing redress in the law courts

The State chairman of the APC, Col David Imuse (Rtd), over the weekend, after the meeting of the Executive Committee of the party, officially announced that the 15 lawmakers would be given the right of first refusal.

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But the aspirants who were at the premises of the state Secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, insisted that the blanket ticket for the G-14 was wrong, as some of them were already aspiring for other positions like the House of Representatives, some of them had gotten other appointments and others had lost touch with their people.

One of the aspirants, Victoria Amu, from the Owan West constituency said “We were invited to the APC secretariat where the chairman reeled out his riot act on all aspirants especially those of us whose 14 members did not go into the house of assembly. They failed to give us the statistics of the 14 that are still contesting instead they hid them under blanket coverage. For me in Owan West, one of the 14 is in London right now, he really does not care. He used to tell us all in the local government that London was closer to him than Sabongida-Ora. He didn’t come for this meeting yet, they want to give him the ticket.”

When contacted the chairman of the party, said the decision was a “party decision and as party members, they should abide by it. It is just like the same way aspirants during our national convention were prevailed upon to step down for our new national chairman.”

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Edo APC assembly aspirants kick against party on automatic tickets for non-inaugurated members