All Progressive Party (APC) aspirants from Oyo North senatorial district have all called for a direct primary to put an end to crises in the area.
This was disclosed on Saturday at District Grammar School (IDGS), Iseyin after a serving Senator was holding a scheduled primary in a hotel.
The aspirants condemned the action urging the leadership of the party for quick intervention over the matter.
A serving House of Representatives member, honourable Shina Peller representing Iseyin/Iwajowa/Kajola/Itesiwaju Federal Constituency decried the latest development.
He said “Iseyin District Grammar School which is to be the venue that we all agreed for the primary election for APC House of Representatives and Senate.
“All the delegates are here with their cards since 10 am and all the aspirants both House of Rep and Senator are all here except a serving Senator but to our surprise, we were briefed that another kangaroo primaries are going on in one hotel along Oyo-Iseyin road and we moved to the venue and its unfortunate that we met them there with some unaccredited delegates as well as fake ballot papers, and accreditation tags that have no passports 3this is wrong.
“We are supposed to follow the guidelines of our party, there should be a respect for our party and our people. this is unaccepted, we don’t have trust in the whole process again, what we need now is a direct primary, our people have been here since Thursday for the state House of Assembly primaries, they were also here yesterday, Friday for the House of Representatives primaries, they waited for till 11 pm before they were chased away from this premises.
“This morning, we have been here for Senatorial primaries and up till now, after3:00 pm we have not seen any officials of our party saddle with the responsibility,” he disclosed.
Also, in their separate contributions, the Senatorial aspirants present at the venue, Honourable Saheed Alaran, Honourable Adebola Adeboyi,n and Honourable Shola Ogunbode said they are not satisfied with the current situation of things here in our district.
At the time of filing this report, all the House of Representatives members for Iseyin, Iwajowa, Kajola, and Itesiwaju, accredited delegates with their original slips, and Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) officials were on the ground.