Some youths and women of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Monday thronged the party’s secretariat in Benin City, the Edo State capital in protest against the outcome of Saturday’s governorship primary election which produced three winners.
The group who removed furniture and other items from the secretariat and promised to camp outside the facility for the next seven days also alleged sabotage on the part of the state executive which they claim had received financial inducement to counter the election committee’s declaration.
Dressed in the party’s paraphernalia, the protesters argued that Dennis Idahosa is the rightful candidate for the APC in the September 2024 election.
“We cast our vote for Dennis Idahosa. Since they are trying to sabotage the youths, we will not allow it. I’m a youth leader for God’s sake. The person who just won the primary is just 43 years old. This is what we have been crying for and God Almighty has done it,” the party’s youth leader Tony Adun better known as Kabaka said.
“Any human being that wants to change it, we will tell him the youth has 75% when it comes to election. I want to send a message to the National Working Committee. If you people in the state working committee can disobey the National Working Committee, they need to be suspended from the party. If that is not done, nobody will come to this office because the party is supreme.”
