National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Oyegun has said claims by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that he rigged the Ondo APC governorship primaries in favour of an aspirant was “baseless and reckless”.
Oyegun said this in a statement on Friday, stating that it was an insult to allege that the national working committee (NWC) members rigged the primaries.
Oyegun had earlier said he wouldn’t join issues with Tinubu, regarding to him as our leader, but had released this statement less than 72 hours after meeting President Muhammadu Buhari.
“The media office of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu in its statement alleged that I overruled the NWC’s vote of ‘six against five’ in favour of cancelling the primary election results and conducting another primary.
“According to the minutes of the 18th emergency meeting of the APC NWC held from Monday 19th September 2016 to Thursday 22nd September, 2016 at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, there was absolutely no meeting which I chaired that voted in the manner alleged.
“Clearly, the report on which the media office of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu acted was a figment of someone’s wild imagination.
“According to the minutes of the 18th emergency meeting of the APC NWC held from Monday 19th September 2016 to Thursday 22nd September, 2016 at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja, there was absolutely no meeting which I chaired that voted in the manner alleged.
“Clearly, the report on which the media office of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu acted was a figment of someone’s wild imagination.
“On Thursday 22nd September, 2016 being the final day for submission of candidate by political parties, the NWC discussed the possibility of voting having finished deliberation on the 2016 Ondo state APC governorship primary election appeal committee report because members in support of cancelling the primary results were still strident in their position.
“A member of the NWC however drew the attention of the meeting to its previous decision in which the report of the primary election committee was adopted while the appeal committee was set aside,” he said in the statement.
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