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Osun APC Governorship Primary Now Holds on Friday

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The All Progressives Congress (APC) has shifted its governorship primary in Osun from Thursday to Friday, July 20.

The party announced the postponement today in a statement issued by Malam Bolaji Abdullahi, its National Publicity Secretary.

According to the statement, a meeting between the Primary Election Committee, chaired by Gov. Abdul’aziz Yari, of Zamfara and Osun APC stakeholders would hold in Osogbo, the state capital on Thursday.

The APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole had on Monday, July 16, said the party would adopt the direct primary to pick its candidate for the Osun governorship election.

He said, “We have decided that in order to ensure popular participation and to deepen democracy in Osun State, in-line with the provision of our party’s Constitution which allows for either direct or indirect primary, we have resolved that the governorship election primary will be conducted on the basis of the direct primary.

“What that means is that every card-carrying member of our party will participate in the process of nominating the flag bearer of the party.

“This for us is the most democratic way to conduct the election and is in line with what our critical stakeholders from that part of the country want and we are quite happy to oblige.”

Oshiomhole had explained that the essence was to allow more party members to participate in the process of nominating its candidates and to remove issues of corruption or monetising the processes.

He added that the direct primary would give party members a sense of ownership of the outcome of the exercise.

All 17 aspirants who obtained the party’s Expression of Interest and Nomination forms to contest its ticket for the governorship election on September 22, had all been cleared.

All political parties fielding candidates for the Osun governorship election, have up to Monday, July 23 to submit the name of their candidates for the election to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

A political party could, however, substitute its candidate afterwards, if the need arises.

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