Fifty-three House of Assembly aspirants on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Ondo State have accused members of the party’s screening committee of compromising their conscience.
In a press statement, they said the five-man committee connived with Governor Olusegun Mimiko to disqualify them from the race.
The aspirants wondered why the committee cleared all those favoured by Mimiko, who defected to the party less than a month ago, and disqualified those who have been in the party for more than a decade.
The aspirants described the action of the committee as voodoo politics aimed at circumventing a court ruling that sacked the caretaker committee purportedly appointed by the PDP National Working Committee (NWC).
issued yesterday and signed by all the aspirants, they vowed to fight the injustice.