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Members of the All Progressives Congress in State of Osun at Wald 15, in Oyan Town, Odo North local government area, have staged a peaceful protest as their name was removed from the party members register.
Thousands of the affected parts members who converged at the ca showed their Party identification card while their name have been removed.
ADULAWONEWS gathered that all the affected party members belong to Osun Progressives TOP, who is supporting Alhaji Moshood Adeoti for the ongoing gubernatorial election across the state.
Speaking on behalf at the Coalition center the welfare officer of the party, Adesola Adegbite , who presented her party identification card, said her name and other person standing behind her has been removed from the party membership register
She added that they removed name of all the parts members that belongs to TOP.
It was also learnt that TOP members in Ward 07 Odo-Otin. was also removed on membership register.
ADULAWONEWS recall that the Minister of Interior Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola had on Monday, declared support to the former Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti for the ongoing gubernatorial poll.
The development, according to reports is the situation across the State of Osun, with party members who duly registered and have their membership cards, being unable to find their names in the party membership register pasted in different wards and units of the state.
It was gathered that party members in Oyan, Odo-Otin local government, Ede, Ilesa, Osogbo and other parts of the state on arrival at the polling centres did not find their names on the list while having their membership card.
In Ward 2, Oke Amola, Ikirun in Ifelodun Local Government, the situation was the same as party members were denied the opportunity to cast their vote for their preferred aspirant.
Some of the voters said: “This is shocking. We came here early in the morning, overjoyed and elated to be a part of the process of electing our governorship candidate. We had gathered in our ward as early as possible for the exercise.
“To our surprise, we did not find our names in the register they pasted. We have our membership cards with us and we duly registered last year. It is however a rude shock to us that our names are not here. This is a clear message that Governor Oyetola and his men do not want us to vote for the candidate of our choice.
“Our leaders have been alleging that our names might not be in the membership register. We have found out that is true. They do not want us (Adeoti’s supporters) to vote. This is sad and undemocratic. We are party men and we are being disenfranchised in our own party. This exercise is not free, fair and credible.”
It would be recalled that Adeoti had in a press conference on Friday, said that the party membership register was not made available to the aspirants and their supporters in a bid to allow the Governor and his men manipulate the process of today’s primaries. He added that the membership register has since been kept at the Government House in Osogbo due to Oyetola’s membership of the National Caretaker and Extraordinary National Convention Planning Committee of the APC.
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Aregbesola has vowed that the incumbent would not be allowed to serve another term.
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