The All Progressives Congress has yet to take a final decision on the mode of primaries to adopt in picking its Ondo State governorship candidate,One of our correspondents gathered in Abuja, on Saturd
ay, that the meeting of the National Working Committee of the party held in Abuja, on Thursday, was primarily on the Edo State governorship primaries.
“There is a tradition we have established with respect to the mode of primaries in the APC. The mode used during the last Presidential and National Assembly elections is what we’ve adopted for use in Edo State. He further explained that since the Edo State governorship elections comes first; it was the one the party was dealing with at the moment.A former Governor of Edo State, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, had said during the week that both Godwin Obaseki and Oluwarotimi Akeredolu, governors of Edo and Ondo states respectively, should be given right of first refusal for the party’s tickets.
Kekemeke, who is a governorship aspirant of the party, also alleged that majority of the stakeholders of the party in the state supported it.Kekemeke, a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in the state, explained that the direct mode of primaries would be the best for the state going by the controversies that surrounded the emergence of party officials at the last congresses in the state.
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