A coalition of youth groups, the Ondo Peoples Assembly (OPA), has urged the All Progressives Congress (APC) to sanction the duo of Senator Jimoh Ibrahim and Olusola Oke over their alleged role in the aftermath of the April 20, 2024 primary election.
The coalition, made up of youth groups, student bodies, and civil society organisations, said that after the primaries, which had Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa emerged as the standard-bearer of the party ahead of the November governorship election, Ibrahim and Oke continued to undermine the process.
The Convener of the coalition, Olufemi Lawson, flanked by the Publicity Secretary, Kikelomo Isijola, as well as other members, during a media briefing in Akure, the Ondo State capital, said the two aspirants had been attacking the personality of Aiyedatiwa as well as casting aspersions on the party.
BUT reacting to the development, Oke, who spoke through his spokesperson, Ojo Oyewamide, said: “It is an insult to the sensibilities of the people of Ondo State that these fellows are claiming to be speaking on their behalf. The people of the state are not dissatisfied with any aspirant seeking justice in a court of law.
“Rather, they are dissatisfied with the crude and dirty manner in which the party threw up Aiyedatiwa as the candidate of the party.
“They are witnesses to the mindless rape of internal democracy in our party.”
“As a result, the rating of the party has seriously been affected.
“If there are members that want to destroy the party, they are the people who claimed that the governorship primary election took place in Ondo State when, in fact, there was nothing like that. They are supporters of Aiyedatiwa, whose actions and words, are not conciliatory at all.”
