Ahead of the House of Representatives by-election in Akoko North East/North West Federal Constituency, a group of constituents under the aegis of Concerned Akoko Constituents (CAC) has condemned a letter written by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Women Leader, Dr. Mary Alide, in favour of a female candidate.
The counter stance of the group was made known in Akure yesterday by the Coordinator, Suyi Ajiboye, an engineer.
He decried the schemes of a highly placed individual in Ondo State, who is bent of foisting an unpopular female candidate on the APC in the by-election.
Ajiboye said it was most unfortunate that the desperate highly placed individual had deceitfully resorted to using the office of the APC National Women Leader to blackmail APC leaders in Akoko North East/West Federal Constituency to submission.
The CAC coordinator, however, lamented that it was most distressing that an individual would want to take advantage of office, fame and influence to impose an obviously unpopular choice on a whole federal constituency.
He said any aspirant that is truly popular will want to test the popularity in a free and fair contest. He urged the state and national leadership of APC to disregard the letter written by the APC National Women Leader.
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“We urge the state and national leadership of the APC to discountenance the letter written by the APC National Women Leader.”
because it was motivated by the desperate desire of an individual. We are also not unaware that this highly placed individual ran to Abuja and chose to hide behind the office of APC National Women Leader with an intention to railroad our party leaders to support a very unpopular aspirant”.
Ajiboye added that the female aspirant being supported by the prominent individual is not popular within the APC fold and she also lacks the required acceptance to win the by-election.
He stressed that the female aspirant joined APC only recently, after she had contested and lost the 2023 general election on the platform of New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).