Governor Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo State has vowed that Tuesday’s All Progressives Congress (APC) state congress will hold, despite a Federal High Court order halting the exercise.

Speaking at a stakeholders’ meeting at the party secretariat in Akure on Monday night, shortly after Justice Toyin Adegoke issued an ex parte order restraining the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and the APC, Aiyedatiwa said the state chapter is united and peaceful.

The court order followed a petition by aggrieved party members. The APC in Ondo has recently faced a series of violent crises, including three deaths during ward congresses and the injury of party chairman Ade Adetimehin and other chieftains at a stakeholders’ meeting.

Aiyedatiwa described reports of tension within the party as exaggerated by social media, assuring that competition ahead of the congress is normal.

“Once the winners emerge, from the Chairman to other offices, everybody will come together. We are not at war. Ondo State is peaceful,” he said.

National Vice Chairman (South West), Isaacs Kekemeke, added that the party’s national headquarters had not informed him or the committee about the court order and stressed that there is no rancour in the party.

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