By Omeiza Ajayi

The All Progressives Congress,APC yesterday in Abuja justified its decision to jettison the recommendations of its Appeal Committee on the September 3 conduct of governorship primary elections in Ondo state.

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Two of the three-member Helen Bendega-led committee had called for the cancellation of the election result citing several malfeasance to underscore their position.

However, the National Working Committee, NWC of the party had met on Thursday and forwarded the name of the winner of the exercise, Rotimi Akeredolu to the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC as its candidate in the forth coming gubernatorial elections.

Reacting to a newspaper report (not Vanguard) that its national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun over-ruled the NWC and unilaterally forwarded Akeredolu’s name to INEC, the party said it unanimously arrived at the decision having identified some fundamental flaws in the report of the appeal committee.

“For the records, the Party’s National Working Committee (NWC) decision to reject the 2016 Ondo State APC Governorship Primary Election Appeal Committee Report was taken on Tuesday, September 20, 2016 in executive session after careful and exhaustive deliberation. The minutes and rejection was confirmed by the NWC on Thursday, September 22, 2016.