April 25, (THEWILL) – The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has pleaded with aggrieved aspirants who lost out in last Saturday’s governorship primary of the party in Ondo State, to sheath their swords and unite for the victory of the party in the November gubernatorial election.
Ganduje made the appeal on Thursday, at a meeting with aggrieved aspirants and party standard-bearer, Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa.
Aspirants at the meeting include the Senator representing Ondo South Senatorial District, Jimoh Ibrahim; former President of Nigerian Medical Association (NMA), Prof. Francis Faduyile; Olusola Oke (SAN), Dr. Funmilayo Waheed-Adekojo, Dr. Soji Ehinlanwo, Akinfolarin Samuel, Adewale Akinterinwa, Olugbenga Edema, Brig. Gen. Ohunyeye Olamide (retd), Oladiran Iyatan, and Engineer Ifeoluwa Oyedele.
Making his appeal, Ganduje said, “I have to thank you for honouring our invitation in the shortest time and also considering the emotional distress as a result of the primary conducted in a few days.
“The purpose of this dialogue is to appeal, it is not to dwell on what has happened or what hasn’t happened; what is correct and not correct. If we dwell on that, it will lead to too much analysis leading to paralysis.
“If we dwell on that, there are professors amongst us and members of the learned community, SAN, even Engineers. We, who are less educated, the controversy won’t favour us considering the galaxy of people here.
“Our own is to appeal to you. For those of us insiders, it is our party that is the ruling party in Ondo State and we are managers of our party in Nigeria. So, we are an interested party. Our prayer is that our party, your party, should be the ruling party in Ondo State. It is already a ruling party. Our prayer is that it continues to be a ruling party in Ondo State.
“So, we are here to appeal to you so that we succeed in maintaining the state as an APC state. We are all practitioners. I remember that I once contested and after 16 years, I won. So, I can’t call you lost aspirants because you can win tomorrow.”
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