The dogging issue of non-credible internal democracy within the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) again surfaced in the Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti State chapter of the party on Tuesday as disenfranchised loyalists stormed the Ado-Ekiti State Headquarters of the party to register their disapproval.
The regionally strong ACN has been accused of vote-fixing, outright rigging and candidate imposition in several elections and it is feared that this may breed internal dictatorship in the relatively progressive South-Western Nigeria. The leadership of the party under former Lagos Governor Bola Tinubu does very little to to cirrect the perception.
Protesting party members said on Tuesday that a former local lawmaker was being imposed in total disregard for the popular rookie as the only candidate, explained Mr. Femi Jegede, the Secretary of ACN (Ward 8).
Jegede said that party turks led by a commissioner in the government of Dr. Kayode Fayemi, a former UK resident and one-time human right activist, who campaigned and promised reforms in how to run the business of governance in the locality, now go around name-dropping and badgering the peace of Omuo-Ekiti which now hangs on a thread.
According to Mr. Jegede, “I am from ward 8, while ward 9 had produced chairman in the past. As I am talking to you, the Omuo Ekiti is very restive and we will not allow them to cause havoc in the local government because it will not augur well for the town and our party.”