Lawmaker, Hon. Dennis Idahosa, one of the governorship aspirants in the just concluded All Progressives Congress, APC, election in Edo State, has led a protest to the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, demanding justice.
Idahosa described the result of last Thursday’s primary won by another lawmaker, Monday Okpebholo as fictitious while leading a few street urchins carrying placards.
In a post on his official Facebook page, Idahosa expressed appreciation to his supporters for maintaining peace in the face of provocation.
He wrote: “My dear esteemed supporters and party faithful, let me first of all appreciate all party faithful across Edo State for your massive and unwavering support towards my governorship ambition of becoming our party’s flag bearer in the 2024 Edo governorship election.
“I will never take this show of love and confidence for granted going forward.
“The declaration of fictitious primary election results by the Sen. Bassey Otu’s Committee represents the highest level of rape on democracy ever witnessed in Edo State.
“Events in the last few days may have been very disappointing and demoralising to lots of people as your votes seemed not to have counted going by the process and declaration of fictitious primary election results of what happened on the field on the 22nd of February re-run elections in the 192 wards of the state.
“Let me assure you all, our teaming supporters that, I shall explore all the party internal mechanisms to resolve the issues, and seeks justice and where that doesn’t work, I shall communicate with you all on our next line of action.
“Please continue to maintain peace in the face provocation,” he added.
Anamero Dekeria member of the House of Representatives, representing the Etsako Federal Constituency, who scored 2,566 votes in the second primary election, was the first aspirant to reject the outcome of the primary on Friday.
Shortly after Otu declared Okpebholo winner, Dekeri rejected the results and vowed to challenge it at the appeal panel.
He alleged that the conduct of the primaries lacked transparency and was skewed in favour of Okpebholo.
Earlier, the APC National Working Committee at an emergency meeting resolved that the Primary Election was inconclusive and rescheduled the primary election process.
Idahosa has also threatened to sue the party if justice is not served even as he appealed to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to call the APC NWC to order.
