Unidentified People Disrupted Our Guber Primary - Kwara PDP
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Kwara State has alleged that some unidentified people were behind the disruption of its governorship primary election held on Sunday, 30 September 2018.
Mr Tunde Ashaolu, the State Publicity Secretary of the party in a statement said that the election was going on peacefully and smoothly, with delegates voting after accreditation before the unidentified persons disrupted the exercise.
He explained that delegates from two local governments had finished casting their votes and when it was the turn of another local government, the delegates raised a concern about their ballot papers, which was brought to the attention of the electoral committee.
According to him, the committee was trying to address the matter before some fifth columnists took advantage of the situation to disrupt the exercise. He alleged that the fifth columnists who were not happy with the progress of the party in the state.
He, however, appealed to members of the party to remain calm and assured them that arrangements are ongoing to ensure that the voting exercise is resumed and concluded tomorow (Monday), noting that the electoral committee from Abuja are still around to conduct the exercise.
Speaking further, Ashaolu noted that emergence of candidates in the Saraki dynasty had always been through consensus, but in other to ensure an all inclusive and more transparent process, the leader of the party, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki declared that a primary election should be held this time around to decide the party's candidate for the 2019 governorship election.
He said to this end, the party remains committed to conducting a free, fair and credible primary election. The spokesperson, therefore, urged all aspirants and delegates to comport themselves to prevent any acrimony while the exercise holds tomorrow, adding that security would be beefed up at the venue.
Ashaolu also commended Dr Saraki for taking urgent steps to ensure that all issues raised by some concerned aspirants and delegates were resolved. He disclosed that Saraki who was not in town while the exercise was going on, arrived Ilorin at about 10pm, to ensure that today's incident do not denegerate into a crisis within the party.
Ashaolu also denied insinuations in some quarters that Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki had annointed a particular aspirant to emerge as the party's governorship candidate in the primary election. He emphasised that neither the Senate President nor the State Working Committee of the party had a preferred candidate.
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