Things had been occurring easily, and delegates from about 4 native authorities areas, out of 16, had forged their votes for his or her most popular aspirants when, all of the sudden, violence broke out on the Oluyemi Kayode Stadium in Ado-Ekiti final Saturday.
And that was how the train to elect a governorship candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ekiti state grew to become inconclusive.
Some delegates, observers, and representatives of aspirants had alleged that the train was fraudulent, and this led to the rebellion.
In the video now making the rounds, a delegate recognized as Demola Adeusi is seen punching off the desk the quarter-filled poll bins.
HE IS AN ‘AGGRIEVED’ YOUTH LEADER
Adeusi, often known as Oosha, is the APC youth chief within the central senatorial district of the state.
“He is one of the APC leaders,” a party member advised TheCable. “He worked with the last APC government in Ekiti, but now he is a supporter of Olufemi Bamisile, a former speaker of Ekiti state house of assembly and one of the APC governorship aspirants.”
The member described Adeusi as one of many well-liked youth leaders who's “feared” by politicians.
“He has always been the one the APC politicians use to mobilise the youth during electioneering, but he felt abandoned by the people he worked for after the party lost to PDP in the 2014 governorship election,” he stated.
There are many different youths within the party who, TheCable gathered, felt deserted and at the moment are aggrieved.
“At that primary on Saturday, people were already screaming foul before Oosha surfaced,” one other party member defined. “It was people from Segun Oni’s camp who first raised the issue that a particular aspirant had more agents than the other.”
The aspirant, it was alleged, used his aides in bringing in unregistered brokers.
“The security operatives had been compromised. When an unlettered delegate gets to the ballot box and seeks for help, security operatives stationed around get them to vote for a particular aspirant. This was all the things that ignited the violence, that an already aggrieved Oosha jumped out and scattered everything,” he added.
WHY WAS HE NOT ARRESTED?
In the video, Adeusi is seen pulling himself out of the seize of safety operatives.
“Who would arrest him?” an admirer of Adeusi requested TheCable.
After the incident on Saturday, TheCable noticed Adeusi strolling freely within the stadium, and not one of the safety operatives bothered to the touch him, fuelling suspicion that he was appearing a script in cahoot with them.
“I think a majority of the aspirants actually supported what Oosha did, and that was why till today he is still walking freely,” a delegate advised TheCable.
“Things were already being manipulated in favour of a particular candidate— this, so glaring to the other aspirants at the stadium, and Oosha is now seen as the hero who saved the situation.”
Adeyemi Albert Asemola, the Ekiti police PRO, didn't choose his calls and was but to answer an SMS inquiry.
‘I TOOK THAT ACTION TO SAVE THE FUTURE OF EKITI PEOPLE’
Although, TheCable couldn't instantly attain him, Adeusi, in a press release purportedly launched by him, he stated he took that motion to avoid wasting the way forward for Ekiti individuals.
Video of Oohsa destroying poll bins
“Putting the records straight. I took that action to save the future of Ekiti people and also the face of the party from the implosion and the crisis that might have erupted which may be beyond control, based on the obvious malpractices occurring during the electioneering process,” the assertion learn.
“I questioned why an aspirant would have more agents than the other. I questioned why the secutiy officers were not armed while protecting the ballot boxes. I questioned with no answers why people went to the booths with their phones to snap, propbaly so they can collect balance of their financial inducements from aspirants.”
Adeusi, though, apologised for his motion, he stated “there was no better way the process could have been halted for a correction, other than that.”
The nationwide physique of the APC has mounted Saturday for a fresh main election.
APC has till Tuesday, May 15, to submit its candidate identify to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).