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The candidacy of the former President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Chief Rotimi Akeredolu (SAN), to fly the flag of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), in the Ocotober 2012 governorship election in Ondo State has been accepted by other aspirants jostling for the ticket.
The aspirants, at a crucial meeting yesterday in Lagos, after a hot debate in which some of the aspirants voiced their grievances about the process, Daily Sun learnt authoritatively that they eventually succumbed to the supremacy of the party and pledged to work with Akeredolu for the benefit of the party and the people of Ondo State.
Presiding over the meeting, where the former NBA boss was presented to the larger caucus of the party was the National Chairman, Chief Bisi Akande and other party elders including the National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Aremo Segun Osoba, Otunba Niyi Adebayo, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, and Chief Tayo Alasoadura among others were present. However Chief Olaiya Oni reportedly stormed out of the meeting because an Akoko aspirant was not picked for the governoship. Dr. Olu Agunloye, Senator Robert Borroffice and Chief Jayeola Ajatta.
we gathered that a reconciliatory committee was set up to placate the aggrieved aspirants and get them to support Akeredolu’s candidancy.
A source close to the Isaac John, GRA, Ikeja, venue of the meeting also disclosed that Chief Tayo Alasoadura had been ratified to be the Campaign Director-General for the party to be supported by others that would soon be appointed in the task of mobilizing the people of the state to vote for the ACN in the October 2012, governorship election.
Meanwhile, Naijahottestgist checks has revealed that next week has been tentatively slated for the party’s primaries proper in Akure, the Ondo State capital
