Oyo LG election: Ibarapa aspirants reject imposition of candidates

Ahead of the Oyo State Local Government election, the ruling All
Progressives Congress (APC) chairmanship, Vice Chairmanship and
councillorship aspirants from Local Government Areas and Local Council
Development Areas in Ibarapa geopolitical zone have kicked against
imposition of candidates.

They have then written to the state chapter of the party to express
their displeasure over alleged imposition of candidates by Governor
Abiola Ajimobi of the state ahead of the May 12 election.

The aspirants, while resisting the list that emanated from the
purported primary of the party held recently in a hotel in Ibadan, the
state capital, declared that they were surprised that the governor and
some stalwarts of the party supervised the party's primary in a hotel,
a decision they likened to what happened in George Orwell's political
satire, 'Animal Farm'.

The aspirants while resisting the list for the zone, in the letter
addressed to the APC Chairman in the state, Chief Akin Oke, however,
urged the party to prevail on the governor to do what is
"constitutional."

In the letter signed by former Caretaker, Committee Chairman in
Ibarapa Central Local Government, Hon. Akinyemi Akinlabi; former
Chairman in Ibarapa East, Hon. Adeloore Atanda and former Caretaker
Committee Chairman in Ibarapa North Hon. Tunji Omolewu on behalf of
others, a copy of which was obtained by DAILY POST on Tuesday, the
aspirants described the action as alien to "the constitution of the
party and that of Nigeria."

They described the staging of the primary in the hotel as "a form of
dictatorship."