The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has vowed to see to the arrest and quarantine of all the four aspirants of a faction of the party, who participated in a mock primary election in the state. The aspirants are accused of violating the government's social distancing order to contain the spread
The Edo State chapter of the All Progressives Congress has vowed to see to the arrest and quarantine of all the four aspirants of a faction of the party, who participated in a mock primary election in the state.
Addressing journalists in Benin City, the state party publicity secretary, Joseph Osagiede, said the ruling party had contacted the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control to search for the participants and isolate them accordingly for “defying government’s regulations on public gathering of more than 20 persons in the state during the botched mock primaries of the Edo Peoples Movement .”
“We have since informed the NCDC, whose responsibility it is to arrest, quarantine and isolate them to determine if they are safe to be in the society.”
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