The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed Governor Umaru Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State chairman of the first Election Committee to elect its flagbearer for the 2018 Ekiti State post election.
Amb. Fati Balla is additionally appointed to guide a three-member Primary attractiveness Committee.
The two committees were inaugurated yesterday in Nigerian capital by the APC’s National Organising Secretary, Sen. Osita Izunaso, on behalf of the National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun.
The primary election holds this Sat, May 5.
The members of the five-man election committee embrace Hon. Magaji Aliyu (Secretary); mister. Duke Oshodin; Barr. Robert Okwuego and mister. Tunde Balogun.
The attractiveness committee members ar Capt. Bala Jibrin (Secretary) and Mrs. Lilian Obenwa.
Izunaso, WHO inaugurated the committees at the party’s national secretariat, aforementioned the APC was poised to win the Ekiti post election.
While charging the first election committee to confirm a clear exercise, he realized that the party has no most well-liked candidate.
He urged the committee ought to think about the party’s tips for the nomination of candidates for spot, notably section fourteen (iii) that stipulates the composition of the Electoral College/delegates, secret vote at a venue within the urban center ANd declaring winner an aspirant with the very best vote.
“If we tend to conduct a clear primary, any aspirant that wins can sure as shooting become succeeding governor of Ekiti state... The party has no most well-liked candidate, there's no such factor in our lexicon. It doesn't exist. All aspirants ar equal till when the election,” aforementioned Izunaso.
He further that the official delegates list had been given to any or all aspirants, stressing that no petition has been received on the list.
Izunaso, WHO aforementioned all thirty three aspirants had been cleared by the party’s National operating Committee (NWC) to contest the primaries, urged the first election committee to convene a stakeholders meeting with aspirants and party chieftains to agree on modalities for the primaries.
The chairman of the first election committee, governor Al-Makura, WHO spoke on behalf of the committees, thanked the party for considering them worthy to hold out the assignment.
“As way as we tend to ar involved, we tend to contemplate this assignment as a family affair that needs to be drained strict conformity with our Party’s tips and also the constitution. I want to assure the National operating Committee that by the special Grace of God, we tend to as members of the Ekiti post primary can do justice to the current exercise.
“We can guarantee free and honest election, conformity and adherence to any or all the rules so by the time the exercise is over, the Party can become stronger and additional cohesive. this can be the start of the reassurance of our nice party to reclaim the mandate in Ekiti state,” the governor conjointly aforementioned.
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