Accord Party to refund fees of unsuccesful aspirants All aspirants who lost at the just concluded primaries of the Accord Party will have their nomination forms’ fee returned any moment from now. A chieftain of the party and former speaker of the state House of Assembly, Honourable Adeolu Adeleke, disclosed this while speaking with Sunday Tribune. Adeleke said the decision was unprecedented in the history of party politics in the country and a demonstration that Accord, unlike other parties, does not delight in making fortunes from those who offer themselves for an opportunity to serve the state. “If you monitor what transpired during the primaries of others parties in the state, you will have observed that the successful candidates in other parties as well as the unsuccessful ones coughed out a fortune in their bid to grab the ticket of their parties. “But in Accord, our guided primaries went smoothly, though it was a huge task getting 50 candidates out of the over 350 aspirants that we had for all the offices. This figure, you can contradict me if you have contrary information, is far higher than the figures for all the other parties in the state put together. “This has shown one thing: that Accord is winning the next general election, especially now that we know those who will be contending with our leader and former governor, Rashidi Ladoja. He is the best among those contesting. “With our commitment to refund the unsuccessful aspirants, we have opened a historic chapter in Nigeria’s party politics and even those we call unsuccessful aspirants are also candidates in a way because they have automatically qualified for appointments when Ladoja’s government comes on board in May, 2015,” Adeleke said. Meanwhile, Senator Ladoja has condemned the vandalisation of his billboards by thugs from his opponents’ camps, saying nobody can erase his image already engrained in the minds of the masses, the civil cervants and the people of the state in general. “I only sympathise with them. This development has shown that they have accepted defeat and are only counting days. They don’t allow us to use state- owned media. They have forgotten to take a good lesson from history. Whether they like it or not, Accord remains the party to beat and we are the incoming government,” Ladoja said.
Posted on: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 10:42:10 +0000
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