Comrade Adams
Oshiomhole, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress
(APC), has reacted to the report that Governor Godwin Obaseki has rejected
direct primary for the coming governorship election in Edo State.
Oshiomhole said the
APC had not received any official letter from the Governor rejecting direct
mode of primary adopted by the party’s National Working Committee (NWC).
The former labour
leader said this yesterday while fielding questions from reporters at the end
of a closed-door meeting with some APC governors.
The former Governor
of Edo State also said that the governors elected on the APC platform had
agreed to support the winner of the forthcoming gubernatorial primary election.
Asked to
specifically react to the reports that the Edo State Governor, who is seeking a
second term on the party’s platform, had rejected the direct mode of primary,
Oshiomhole said, “I don’t have any letter or document to that effect. These are
very formal matters.
“We have since
published our time-table because under the law, we are required to give INEC at
least, 21 days notice to monitor our primaries and to state the mode of our
primaries.
“And of course, the
NWC had approved direct primaries for Edo. That of Ondo has not been discussed
because that will come much later, because Edo will come about three weeks
before Ondo.”
Oshiomhole informed
that the NWC have started the sale of forms to aspirants, adding that as at
last Friday, three people had picked the forms. He said more people bought the
Edo State governorship forms on Monday.
“So, we’re selling
forms to all those who wish to buy based on the guidelines and of course, as
the Chairman of the Progressives Governors rightly said, we have ensured in our
letter to INEC and even this (Monday) morning, we had a virtual meeting with
INEC leadership,” he added.
The APC national
chairman insisted that primaries will be conducted taking into account the
protocols on COVID-19 by the Presidential Task Force, PTF, on coronavirus and
the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, adding,”I think everything has
been going fine.”
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