Over voting in Oyo South, manifestation of poor planning—- Group

The over voting at the Oyo South senatorial district’s primary election of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the weekend has been described as the result of poor planning on the Isaac Omodewu- led Executives of the party. This was the verdict of Oyo Progressive Front, a pressure group within the APC in Oyo State.

According to Tunde Oladeji, the Group’s coordinator, the occurrence of over voting at the Primary election has clearly shown the cluelessness of the present APC executive in Oyo State which has been its hallmark since it hijacked the party structure in the State.

The election had Adegboyega Adegoke with 53 votes, Bimbo Adekanmbi, 98 votes, Sarafadeen Alli, who had earlier withdrawn from the contest with 107 votes, Kola Balogun, 93 votes, Rotimi Francis Adeniyi with 4 votes, Waheed Olajide, 2 votes and Kolapo Kola -Daisi who polled 212 votes to emerge winner.

“The delegates were accredited and the numbers were known, how come the story of over voting is coming up now? It is either some people are intentionally creating a crisis where there is none, in any case, the umpire, the Independent National electoral Commission (INEC) official at the scene has not come out to say there was over voting”, the Coordinator said.

The Group however vowed to resist any attempt to upturn the will of the people . “ We have heard from authoritative sources that agroup loyal to the camp of the new governorship candidate is behind the move to subvert the will of the people in that primary and we will not hesitate to name them if we are pushed to the wall”.