Skip to main content

Ondo Election: Oke Is Not Our Candidate- AD Legal Adviser...........Position Is A Mere Entertainment- Bola Ilori

The Alliance for Democracy in Ondo State has on Friday denied Mr. Olusola Oke as the party candidate in the coming Ondo State Governorship election.

National Legal Adviser, Alliance for Democracy, Mr. Kehinde Aworele, made this known while answering question from newsmen in Akure on friday.

Arowolo said that the party’s National Executive Committee did not recognise Chief Olusola Oke as its governorship candidate in the forthcoming Ondo state election.

 Oke, who had contested for the State governor in the 2012 guber poll in Ondo State on the platform of People Democratic Party (PDP) claims to be AD’s gubernatorial flag bearer for the election coming up on November 26. He later defected to All Progressives Congress APC following the decamping of governor Olusegun Mimiko from Labour Party LP to the PDP claiming that the party have hijacked by the Governor


In the APC where he decamp to, Oke vied for governorship ticket for the November poll but was unsuccessful. He immediately switched to AD and claimed to have picked its gubernatorial mandate for the election.

The party Legal Adviser, Arowolo said the party needed more members but that whoever wanted to join should take the proper channel in order not to jeopardise the party pedigree and integrity.

He added that there were certain decisions taken solely by the National Chairman of the party, Chief Joseph Avazi, which ought to have been done by the NEC.

He maintained that the outcome of October 14 NEC meeting remained binding, saying, “we have said that Olusola Oke is not known to the party because he does not follow proper procedure of the party, so he is not even a member of AD.

"On the issue of his eligibility, I will not comment on that because it is pending before the Federal High Court, Akure.

 “But, I can tell you that he is not a member of our party because he has not complied with the constitutional procedure of our party by which a candidate should emerge.” He said the party had a candidate named Mr. Akin Olowookere, who purportedly stepped down for Olusola Oke, but had not formally informed the party.

He said, “It was some members of the party who went to the media that we had rescinded our earlier decision through the communique issued by the party’s NEC. “There was information that Olusola Oke met some members who later spoke against our decision but this cannot be valid.

"As at today, we have passed a vote of no confidence on the national chairman, national secretary and national auditor of the party and it is the NEC of the party that can make a change of that decision. “I don’t have anything against Oke as a person; he is a nice gentleman and a member of my profession but he should not come through the backdoor.”.

 Reacting, Oke’s Campaign Manager, Mr. Bola Ilori, said that AD’s legal adviser’s position was a “distraction and entertainment’’.

He was supported by the Secretary of the party in the state, Mr. Sola Agboola, who said that those against Oke’s candidature were being sponsored by the opposition. Similarly, Olowookere said that he had stepped down for Oke, adding that Aworele was “merely distracting the teeming supporters of Chief Oke’’.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

FBI: Clinton's New Emails Prompt Further Investigation

The FBI on Friday informed Congress it has reopened its review of White House frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s use of a personal email server when she was secretary of state and to know whether there is classified information in new emails that have emerged in its prob. The FBI had said in July its investigation was finished but reopened the investigation after discovering new mails “that appear to be pertinent.” The disclosure raises the possibility of the FBI reopening the criminal investigation involving the Democratic presidential nominee just days before the election, although it is not clear if that will happen.
1 comment
Read more

Trump Guilty Of Uncontrollable Misoginy- Film Actress

Adult film actress Angela Patrice Heaslet, Popularly known as Jessica Drake in the movie industry has described the GOP Nominee, Donald Trump as a Misogynist and Sexual assault apologist. Drake stated this during a press conference held on Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles. She is the latest woman to come forward with allegation against the GOP nominee, accusing the presidential hopeful Donald Trump of sexual assault. The film actress, while narrating how he met Trump said he his guilty of "uncontrollable misogyny" and being "a sexual assault apologist.  And according to the press release from Gloria Allred, drake attorney, she said she is now representing three victims who have come forward with sexual misconduct allegations against the GOP nominee. Drake is the 11th accuser to come forward with allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct. In the release, Drake stated that she met Trump 10 years ago when she was working a booth for Wicked Pictures at a cele...
Post a Comment
Read more

How Ilorin Rose Against Saraki With Stones And Chants Of Thief! Thief!!, By Jogbojogbo Abdulrahman

Today, the Muslim Ummah celebrated. Today, in Ilorin, the Eid organisers disappointed and displayed colossal incompetence. Today, Mr. Saraki was humiliated. All around the world, Muslims celebrated and gathered at several Eid grounds to worship. It was no different in Ilorin, home to great Islamic scholars. What was different however, was that for the first time in recent history, the organisation was so bad that many people left without praying. People far off from the Imam could not link up to him as a result of bad/insufficient speakers. The disappointment I felt is the same the man beside me must have felt when shortly before the prayers he was lamenting: “First, they said, we were uneducated, so we went to school. Now that we’ve gone to school, there are no jobs for us. The few that have jobs have not been paid for monthsShortly after the prayers, I noticed commotion. There were water sachets and stones flying in the air – all directed at the direction whe...
Post a Comment
Read more