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By Emmanuel Adeleke
Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Irepodun and Orolu Local Government Areas of Osun State, on Monday, opposed ceding of the party’s Osun Central senatorial ticket and that of Osogbo Federal Constituency to Osogbo and Olorunda Local Government Areas.
This was contained in a communique issued after a stakeholders’ meeting held In Ilobu.
The communique, read by the APC Secretary in Osogbo Federal Constituency, Abayomi Oyedeji, called on the state governor, Adegboyega Oyetola; the party’s pioneer national chairman and former governor of the state, Chief Bisi Akande; and the party’s state chairman, Gboyega Famoodun, to intervene and call those behind the plot to order.
“Specifically, we support the zoning of the senate to either Osogbo Local Government Area or Olorunda Local Government Area, and the zoning of member representing the federal constituency at the House of Representatives to either Irepodun Local Government Area or Orolu Local Government Area to ensure justice, fairness and equity.
“We wish to point out that whoever thinks that the Osogbo Local Government Area or Olorunda Local Government Area will grab and snatch from us the candidacy of the member of the House of Representatives for the next national assembly elections is deliberately nursing a motive that will destabilise the federal constituency. The move, if it is true, will be resisted with all means at our disposal as integral parts of the federal constituency,” the communique read.