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The immediate past ALGON chairman in Oyo State and House of Representatives hopeful under All Progressives Congress (APC), Prince Ayodeji Abass-Aleshinloye, said no election held in Oluyole Federal Constituency on Friday, May 27.
Aleshinloye, in a statement he personally signed on Sunday, urged the general public should ignore “cooked results of an imaginary election by some criminal election riggers jubilating over imagination.”
The statement read: “My attention has been drawn to a purported election result being circulated by certain undemocratic individuals for Oluyole Federal Constituency to the effect that a certain aspirant out of the five aspirants was elected in an election that never took place despite the gathering of party’s aspirants and delegates at the venue – Cocoa Research Institute of Nigeria, CRIN, on Friday, May 27, 2022.
“All party members, aspirants, delegates, the media and the general public should ignore such cooked results of an imaginary election by some criminal election riggers jubilating over imagination.
“Election did not hold because of fake delegate list brought in by an aspirant trying to force it in vain on the delegates and other aspirants as it was done in many other places the primary elections of state, federal constituencies and Oyo State gubernatorial primary election were held.
“The true picture, as was earlier recorded on the spot at CRIN and circulated on social media, was that all the five aspirants including my humble self, Ayodeji Abass – Aleshinloye, Kehinde Olaosebikan, Olugbemi Olusumbo, Adegboyega Rasheed and Hon Tolu Sadipe, gathered at CRIN for the expected election to be conducted by the Election Committee of our party, All Progressives Congress (APC), sent from the national secretariat, Abuja, and witnessed by INEC.
“The atmosphere was peaceful with aspirants and delegates ready for the election that was expected to follow the due process in line with our party’s constitution and the electoral act. But the crisis of confidence started when four aspirants out of the five, (Aleshinloye, Olaosebikan, Olugbemi and Adegboyega) demanded to see and verify the delegates list. This led the cat out of the bag of the election riggers acting in concert with an aspirant, Hon Tolu Sadipe, who knew that she can never win any free and fair election in Oluyole Federal Constituency.
“Asking for the original delegates list agreed to by all and submitted by the party leadership in Oluyole Local Government to the state and national secretariats of APC for verification by the four aspirants suddenly looked like searching for a needle in the ocean.
“Surprisingly, the original delegates list had been substituted with the list single-handedly provided by Hon Tolu Sadipe that was padded with fictitious, phantom names.
As a result of the non-provision of the original delegates list, which INEC also had a copy, immediately the four aspirants collectively addressed the Election Committee that a legitimate, free and fair election could only be conducted with the original delegates list.
But alas and behold, the election committee and their favoured aspirant, Hon Tolu Sadipe, boarded their vehicles and zoomed off out of CRIN, the venue of the election that was supposed to hold there.
“Despite their disappearance, all other aspirants and authentic delegates, INEC waited at the venue for so long for the return of election riggers but they never returned to the venue because of the shame of their criminal action.
“So, where did they conduct an election that never took place in CRIN or anywhere while authentic delegates and four aspirants out of five were waiting? Perhaps, in the forest of a thousand demons in their dream. It’s quite laughable and embarrassing.
“Once again, please ignore any purported published election results of Oluyole Federal Constituency by some miscreants because NO ELECTION TOOK PLACE. And to expose their fraud by themselves, they first published 49:1 as election result, but they later changed it to 39:11. It’s simply a futile effort in election brigandage and an indulgence in foolish idiosyncrasy and self deception.
“My appeal to our teeming supporters, authentic party delegates, co-aspirants and conscientious party leaders who are disgusted by the strange electoral criminality of the few gangsters, is to be vigilant, be peaceful as usual and steadfast in the face of provocation. We appreciate authentic delegates who stood firm and resisted peacefully the rigging agenda that’s capable of destroying our party by the transient dangerous vultures of misfortune.
“We have duly reported these electoral bandits and their illegitimate acts to the appropriate party structure for necessary action. You will be updated as events unfold.”