Ondo APC gov aspirants woo delegates with N.5m each

In a bid to win the forthcoming primary of the All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, investigation conducted by our correspondent revealed that some aspirants were wooing the 3,000 delegates that would vote in the APC primary with between N300,000 and N500, 000 each.

The primary was earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday  (tomorrow) but it has been postponed till August 31, 2016.

The delegates would come from 203 wards across the 18 local government areas of the state.

No fewer than 25 aspirants will be contesting for the ticket of the party at the primary.
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They  include Dr. Tunji Abayomi, Mr. Bode Ayorinde, Dr. Segun Abraham, Chief Olusola Oke, Chief Bukola Adetula, Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), Senator Tayo Alasoadura,  Moyosola Niran-Oladunni, Senator Ajayi Boroffice and Mrs. Jumoke Anifowose.

According to a source close to some of the aspirants, each of the aspirants had already spent millions of naira to woo the delegates to their sides in preparation for the primary while another huge sum of money would be showered on each of the delegates during the primary.

One of the aspirants, Jumoke Anifowose, while speaking with our correspondent on the telephone, condemned the act of using money to entice the delegates.

 She said if money was used as the deciding factor for the primary, a good and credible candidate would not emerge as the standard bearer of the party in the governorship election.

Anifowose, the only female governorship aspirant and daughter of the first civilian governor of the state, the late Chief Adekunle Ajasin, urged fellow aspirants to allow the delegates make their choice among the aspirants.