Nigeria’s Electoral Act refers to two forms of party primaries – Direct or Indirect. For the Direct mode, all members of a political party are given a chance to vote for the party’s flag bearer in a coming election. In the case of the Indirect mode, a party is to first identify a list of delegates who will then vote to select the party’s flagbearer.
In Edo state where primaries are holding this month and where party factionalization has been quite visible, APC members have expectedly failed to follow a unity of direction as to the preferred mode. Whereas the state branch of the party relying on existing convention of delegated powers on the subject has chosen the indirect mode, the party’s National Working Committee NWC which is mandated to supervise the contest says it will organize direct primaries.
Those who dispute our conclusion should find out why the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Cross River and Benue states won every seat in their recent local government elections. To drive home the point, let us recall that in 2017, when the current Benue governor belonged to the APC, his party at the time won ALL the chairmanship and councillorship seats, the same way his new party the PDP has just done in the same state in 3 years.
Interestingly, it is public knowledge that the leadership of the NWC belongs to one of the factions of the party in Edo State. A few months ago, when APC members in the state were busy suspending each other, the NWC rejected the suspension of the national chairman by his local executive but accepted the suspension of the state chairman by another faction before setting up a panel to investigate the crisis in the state.
Another party leader was even reported to have gone dramatic revealing what he called a joker. He says when the name of the leader of the team to handle the clearance of the aspirants is made known, the whole nation would be left dumb-founded over the disqualification of the incumbent governor which had been sealed long ago. Who is this APC chieftain known for such hatchet job?
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