The APC Appeals Committee on the governorship primary election held on Saturday in Ondo State has received two additional petitions, bringing to five the number.

This is contained in a statement issued by the Secretary of the Committee, Mr Obiocha Israel, made available to newsmen on Tuesday in Akure.

It said the fresh petitions were received from Sen. Jimoh Ibrahim and Mrs Folakemi Omogoroye.

Messrs Wale Akinteriwa, Gbenga Edema and  Jimi Odimayo, who contested in the Saturday primary election had earlier on Monday filed petitions over the conduct and result of the  election.

Gov. Lucky Aiyedatiwa, who became governor following the death of the late Governor Rotimi Akeredolu, was declared winner of the election by the Governor Usman Ododo-led APC primary election committee.

Other many aspirants including the petitioners, however, decried the conduct of the election alleging that no elections were held in many wards in the 18 local government areas of the state.

Israel said that the two aspirants alleged that the just concluded primary was marred with irregularities and fell short of appreciable standard.

He said “Ibrahim and Omogoroye described the process as an anticlimax, a mockery of democracy and complete negation of every known democratic norm.”

Israel said further that Omogoroye asked  for the cancellation of the election and urged  the committee chairman to order for another election.

Ibrahim, appeals committee chairman, asked for cancellation of the election on four grounds, which included: non-compliance with the rules, non provision of electoral materials, non accreditation of agents and gross misconduct.

“I paid the sum of N100 million  for the validation of over 40,000 party members and those members were not allowed to be revalidated across Ondo State.

“This was because no voters register was made available in the wards to which members could be validated

“On ground two – on provision of electoral materials – No electoral materials were provided for the conduct of the election.

“The local government electoral officials were kept in the hotel during the period of the election for several hours and only result sheets were given to them.

“My agents were not accredited in all the wards, and they did not sign the election result sheet since none was made available to them,” Ibrahim was quoted to have said in his petition.