First Lady of Ondo State and Imo West Senatorial aspirant of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Betty Akeredolu was chased out of the party secretariat in Imo State.
The Imo State indigene led her supporters to the secretariat to protest the consensus option adopted by the party in choosing its candidate for the 2023 election.
Akeredolu’s supporters went berserk, insisting that they must be allowed to vote. The police tried to control the crowd and in the process, there was stampede.
According to Daily Trust, journalists and delegates who had arrived the venue for the exercise scampered for safety.
The policemen had to chase Akeredolu and her supporters out of the premises to continue their protest.
Akeredolu, who addressed journalists at the gate of the secretariat, said that its injustice to allow aspirants to campaign only to be told that the party had adopted consensus option.
She said, ” I am insisting that we must go by delegate election. I cannot waste time and resources campaigning only to be told that candidates would emerge by consensus. We must vote and if I lose gallantly, I will accept the result.
“Consensus my foot. If men agree to consensus, I won’t agree. After spending my time and money, you are now telling me about consensus and all these while we have been campaigning and nobody talked about consensus.”