APC Committee Receives Petition To Cancel Election.

All Progressives Congress Primary Election Appeal Committee for Ondo State says it has received three petitions challenging the victory of Ondo State Governor, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, in the governorship primary conducted on Saturday through to Sunday.

The Chairman of the Primary Election Appeal Committee, Muhammed Abubakar, who disclosed this during a press briefing in Akure said, the three petitions were received from Wale Akinterinwa, Jimi Odimayo and Gbenda Edema.

This is coming after Governor of Kogi State, Usman Ododo, who is the Chairman of the Primary Election Committee, had in the early hours of Monday, declared Aiyedatiwa as the winner of the Ondo APC primary election after polling 48,460 votes across 18 local government areas of the state to defeat the 15 other aspirants.

But ahead of the declaration, many of the aspirants had expressed dissatisfaction with the process, calling for its cancellation, while, Chairman of the Primary Election Appeal Committee said, the development was not strange, and that, the party has an appeal committee to look into complaints emanating from primaries.

Abubakar also said, the committee would look thoroughly into the three petitions from the aggrieved aspirants.