No Appeal Panel For Osun APC Primary Election- Aspirant Laments
A gubernatorial aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun State, Mr Rasheed Adegoke Monday lamented the none availability of election appeal panel to hear petitions arising from the recently conducted gubernatorial primary election of the party.
Adegoke who regretted his inability to submit his appeal petition to the Osun APC Primary Election Appeal Panel noted that his efforts was thwarted as the appeal panel could not be found.
A statement signed and made available to newsmen by the legal luminary claimed that the copies of his petition taken to the APC Secretariat at Ogo-Oluwa area in Osogbo by the Administrative Officer of ‘Kunle Rasheed Adegoke (K-RAD) Campaign Organization, Mr Adegoke Adelere was not accepted by the officials of the party.
Adegoke who is popularly known as K-RAD narrated his ordeals in trying to summit the petition saying “In line with the statement made by the chairman of the electoral committee of APC that organised the primary election on Friday 20th July, 2018, that complaints could be made to an appeal panel after the primaries.
“”I made efforts to submit an appeal letter to the Secretary of the Panel at about 2 pm on Saturday 21 July 2018. Unfortunately, no member of the appeal panel was present to receive the letter.”
“All efforts to persuade the officials of the State Chapter of the party to receive the letter proved abortive. All efforts to reach Senator Ovie Omo-Agege who presided over the election proved abortive as he did not pick my calls and neither has he responded to the text message I sent to him to complain about the failure to have the appeal committee in place.”
“Furthermore, it seems no appeal panel has been set up and it doesn’t seem the party intends to set up one in accordance with the dictates of the party’s constitution.”
In his appeal petition Alao made available, Adegoke expressed his grievances against the conduct of the primaries and the outcome of the exercise.
In the opening paragraph of his appeal letter, Adegoke said “This is to lodge an appeal against the conduct and result of the governorship primary election held in Osun State on Friday the 20th day of July, 2018.”
In his five-page petition, Adegoke enumerated his concerns and grouse against the Osun APC primary election.
“It is on record that I raised certain concerns against the procedure being adopted for the conduct of the primary election in which direct method was being canvassed without compliance with the relevant provisions of the Constitution of our party, All Progressives Congress (APC), 2014 (as amended), he stated.
