Hundreds of women and youths of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ondo State on Monday staged a protest in Akure, rejecting the list of House of Representatives candidates released by the party’s National Secretariat.
The demonstrators, who blocked major roads including the convoy of Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa along Oyemekun Road and the Akure–Ilesa Expressway, alleged that the list did not reflect the outcome of last month’s primaries.
They claimed that names of aspirants who lost the election were included, describing the move as an attempt to impose candidates on the party.
Carrying placards with inscriptions such as “We don’t want imposition in Ondo APC” and “Let our votes count,” the protesters demanded that the party leadership respect the will of members across the state’s 203 wards.
State Commissioner for Women Affairs, Mrs. Seun Osamaye, dismissed the circulated list as fake, insisting it failed to represent the mandate of party members.
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