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A major crack appeared yesterday in the ranks of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) governorship aspirants in Ondo State as one of them, Chief Felix Rawa, dumped the party for the rival Labour Party (LP).
Rawa, who was the House of Representatives candidate for Ilaje/Eseodo Federal Constituency in the 2011 election, said he decided to dump the ACN because of the dictatorial tendencies of its leadership.
Pointedly, Rawa said the unilateral zoning of the governorship ticket to the North senatorial district without consulting party members smack of irresponsibility on the part of the party’s leadership.
The erstwhile governorship aspirant said the situation where someone will stay in Lagos and decide who rules Ondo and other southwest geo-political zone would not be tolerated in the state. He said the people should be allowed to decide who rule them and not through imposition.
According to him, the leadership of the party had approached him and told him that it was the turn of the oil producing area of the state to produce the next governor since they had been marginalized in the scheme of things by the previous government. Since the party lost the last general election, Rawa said he had been spending his hard earned money in order to mobilize party members thinking he would pick the governorship ticket. He said he was disappointed when the leadership summoned a meeting for Lagos where the decision to zone the governorship seat was taken without consulting him and other leaders of the party in the state.
Rawa said, “My team and I was about the first group of politicians that hoisted the flag of ACN in Ondo State and extensively worked for its spread based on sound principles, impeccable ideology and ideals with the hope of pursuing mass based programmes devoted to fighting poverty and empowering the teeming people of the state.
