The wife of the Governor of Ondo StateMrs Betty Akeredolu, an All Progressives Congress Senatorial aspirant for Imo East Senatorial was chased out of the party’s secretariat on Saturday.
Mrs Akeredolu, an indigene of Emeabiam in Owerrri West Local Government Area was at the party Secretariat to protest the party’s decision to use the consensus option to chose its senatorial candidate for the zone.
The Ondo First Lady and her supporters insisted that rather than picking a candidate through consensus, there should be voting to nominate the candidate.
The insistence of Mrs Akeredolu’s supporters for voting was said to set the stage for confusion and possible break down of law order as the police battled to control the crowd of protesters.
The Network gathered that the police had to move in to chase Akeredolu and her supporters out of the party secretariat when the crowd became uncontrollable.
Akeredolu, who addressed journalists at the gate of the secretariat, said that it was injustice to allow aspirants to campaign only to be told that the party had adopted the consensus option.
A bitter Akeredolu told journalists that she led the protest and insisted on the voting option because it made no sense to make aspirants to campaign, spend their resources just to pick the candidate by consensus.
She said that she would gladly accept the result if she is defeated in the election.
“I am insisting that we must go by delegate election. I cannot waste time and resources campaigning only to be told that candidates would emerge by consensus.
“We must vote and if I lose gallantly, I will accept the result.
“Consensus my foot. If men agree to consensus, I won’t agree. After spending my time and money, you are now telling me about consensus and all these while we have been campaigning and nobody talked about consensus.”
