By Ola ‘Kiya, Reporting
Embattled Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, has suffered a terrible blow in his Ward 8, Ifofin, Ilesha of Ilesha East as he allegedly lost to Governor Adegboyega Oyetola in the ongoing primary election of All Progressives Congress(APC).
Aregbesola was nowhere in sight as he was said to be outside the state to deliver an errand by president Mohammadu Buhari.
However, the chairman of his ward, Adegoke Saheed, who made this known while speaking with newsmen, gave details of how Oyetola rigged out Aregbesola in the poll.
He said: “the process did not go well at all. I challenged the register book they brought because, it is not the register we used during the registration.
“I was the supervisor then. I supervised the whole ward. I appointed those that registered them in the unit.
“During the accreditation, there are some people that belonged to us and their names could not be found in the register book they brought.
“I challenged them. I made them know that the register has been doctored. They did not listen because they are incumbent and they are many.
“The most unfortunate is the chairman of that led the team for the process showed that he is for their side.
“If I raise any observation, he will tell me to go to court. I told him he was wrong to be bias. The security could not do anything.
“After the accreditation, I asked them what is the total number of accredited voters. They said they can’t tell me until after the voting.
“To my own knowledge, all the accredited members cannot be up to 300.
“When they started counting, I started seeing so many faces that I didn’t know.
“I saw a man from Ward 4, Ward 10 is also there, but they did not listen to me.
“They counted over 300 for Oyetola and as they counted ours to 146, they said they should not count again. They disrupted the whole process and ended everything there.
“They did not show us the result sheet. They packed the whole thing and started running. It was in the morning, we learnt that Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has gone for an official assignment given to him by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“That is why he was not around to monitor or participate in the process.
“If the Minister were to be around, they will listen to him with all my complaints.
“They wouldn’t have used the incumbent power they used.”
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