Politics
Osun Senator, Fadeyi rejects APC primary election result, cites irregularities
The senator representing Osun Central, Olubiyi Fadeyi, has rejected the outcome of the All Progressives Congress, APC, senatorial primary election held ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Fadeyi, who contested for the APC ticket, lost the primary election to Adekunle Rasheed Adegoke.
However, he has described the exercise as invalid.
In a statement he made available to journalists in Osogbo on Tuesday, the senator alleged that no credible primary election took place across the Osun Central Senatorial District on May 19.
The chairman of the Osun APC National Assembly primary election committee, Mr Bayo Ayo, had earlier announced that Adegoke emerged winner of the exercise after polling 26,655 votes.
According to the committee, Fadeyi secured 13,138 votes, while other aspirants recorded lower figures during the exercise conducted across the district.
The committee further stated that Yomi Ogunwale scored 2,925 votes, Akintunde Adegboye polled 342 votes, while Olu Fakeye received 67 votes.
Rejecting the outcome, Fadeyi alleged that the figures allocated to aspirants were prepared outside the official electoral process and insisted that no lawful primary election occurred.
The senator alleged that the process was manipulated to deny him victory in the contest.
He said, “No valid primary election was conducted on May 19 across the 116 wards in Osun Central Senatorial District.
“The exercise was deliberately manipulated to rig me out of the process. There was no official collation centre. Results were instead written in an undisclosed hotel in Osogbo.”
He also claimed that President Bola Tinubu and other APC leaders had supported a consensus arrangement for the Osun Central Senatorial District before the primary was conducted.
Fadeyi expressed disappointment that the alleged agreement was later abandoned and urged his supporters to remain calm while party mechanisms were being explored to challenge the outcome.
He said the mandate allegedly taken from him “through the back door would not stand”.
“Appropriate channels within the party had already been activated to address the situation,” he added.
Fadeyi appealed to leaders of the APC in Osun State to intervene urgently, maintaining that he remained committed to the progress and unity of the party.
Responding to the development, Osun APC spokesperson, Kola Olabisi, said aggrieved aspirants were constitutionally entitled to seek redress through established party mechanisms.
Olabisi said, “It is within the constitutional right of any dissatisfied aspirant to seek redress through the party’s mechanism set up for such purpose. At any point in time, to jaw-jaw is better than to war-war. Our democracy is indeed advancing.”
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The African Democratic Congress, ADC, vice presidential candidate, Rotimi Amaechi, has fired back at the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, who said Atiku Abubakar picked him as running mate because of money.
Featuring in an interview on ‘Politics Today’, a programme on Channels Television on Tuesday, Amaechi said he does not respond to his subordinate.
Wike during a media parley with selected journalists on Tuesday had said that Amaechi does not have political value in Rivers state.
Reacting, Amaechi said, “I don’t respond to my subordinate. Wike never hired me. By the time I finish mourning and go into campaign, anybody that insults me, I will insult him back.”
It will be recalled that Amaechi was a presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, but lost out to Atiku Abubakar in the party’s primaries.
Atiku later approached Amaechi after the exercise and later, the ADC announced Amaechi as his running mate ahead of the 2027 general elections.
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The vice presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, says they are ready to do anything president Bola Tinubu wants them to do at the field
Amaechi made this statement on Tuesday during an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today ahead of the 2027 general elections.
He said: “Let the president continue to tell the public that he would win the election at all cost until we get to the field.
“Whatever the president wants us to do at the field, we will do it. I’m not worried about what he wants to do. We will meet at the field.
“Nigeria has to be rescued. What the president and his men are doing is insulting my faith.”
“Recall that Amaechi contested the All Progressives Congress, APC, primary election with Tinubu in 2022 and lost.
He later defected to the ADC ahead of the 2027 polls and is paired with former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as his running mate to fly the party’s flag.
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2027: Tinubu should’ve assured Nigerians APC’ll slug it out with ADC, PDP, others – Amaechi
The presidential running mate of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Rotimi Amaechi, has said President Bola Tinubu should have reassured Nigerians that his party, the All Progressives Congress, APC, will slug it out with the ADC, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and other opposition in the 2027 election.
Amaechi said Tinubu should have assured Nigerians that the APC will slug it out with the ADC, PDP, and other political parties on an even field during the 2027 elections.
He spoke while appearing on Channels Television’s Politics Today, where he tackled Tinubu over his comment during his meeting with the Catholic Bishops Conference of Nigeria.
During the meeting, Tinubu had declared that all is fair in politics.
Faulting Tinubu’s comment, Amaechi wondered that if thugs kill people during election, should that be considered as being fair.
He said: “Look at the president’s statement that all is fair in politics, if a thug takes a gun and shoots me where I’m voting, it’s fair?
“I just listened to him now, you know that I read literature, the moment a writer concludes his writing, any other comment he makes is interpretation, he has the right to interprete his books; I have the right to interprete his book.
“So when the president has said to you all is fair in politics, when the Catholic Church is crying about the possibility of having an election that may not be fair, all the president needs to do is to reassure the country that APC, PDP, and ADC will slug it out on an even field, that it will be a free and fair election, let the best team wins.”
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