President Muhammadu Buhari has
asked leaders and campaign teams of the All Progressives Congress (APC) at the
national and state levels to follow due process in the Edo election.
He spoke on Friday when he
received Osagie Ize-Iyamu, candidate of the APC in the Edo poll.
According to Garba Shehu,
presidential spokesman, Buhari warned the leaders to avoid repeating the
mistakes that made the ruling party lose the elections in Zamfara, Rivers and
Bayelsa states.
In Zamfara, the APC had won all
but one elective position during the general election but the supreme court
sacked its candidates on the grounds that the party did not hold credible
primary elections.
The court voided all votes cast
for the party at the state level, from guber poll to state assembly and ruled
that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidates be sworn in.
While in Bayelsa, David Lyon of
the APC lost the 2020 governorship election when the apex court removed him on
the grounds that Biobarakuma Degi-Eremienyo, hiss running mate, submitted forged credentials to INEC.
At the meeting in Aso Rock on
Friday, the president charged his party leaders to do all within their powers
to follow legal and constitutional means to win the election.
The president expressed optimism
that with the resolution of the “acute crisis’’ in the party, APC “will regain
its pride of place in winning elections, and serving the people”.
“What I want is a transparent
process so that the confidence of the people will be strengthened,” Buhari
said.
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