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Oshiomhole Says He Didn’t Choose Direct Primary For Edo

Tuesday 2 June 2020

Adams Oshiomhole
Adams Oshiomhole

Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), says the party had not received any official letter from Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State, rejecting direct mode of primary adopted by the National Working Committee(NWC).

Oshiomhole, a former governor of the state said this while fielding questions from newsmen after a closed-door meeting with some governors elected on the platform of the party.

According to Oshiomhole, the governors had agreed to support winner of the forthcoming gubernatorial primary election.

On claims that Obaseki had rejected the direct mode of primary, he said: “I don’t have any letter or document to that effect. These are very formal matters.”

“We have since published our time-table because under the law, we are required to give INEC at least 21 days notice to monitor our primaries and to state the mode of our primaries. And of course, the NWC had approved direct primaries for Edo. That of Ondo has not been discussed because that will come much later, because Edo will come about three weeks before Ondo.

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“We have commenced the sale of forms, I think as of last Friday to my knowledge, three people had picked the forms. I think by today (Monday) more people have picked the forms. So, we’re selling forms to all those who wish to buy based on the guidelines and of course as the Chairman of the Progressives Governors rightly said, we have ensured in our letter to INEC and even this (Monday) morning, we had a virtual meeting with INEC leadership. We will conduct primaries taking into account the protocols on COVID-19 by the PTF and NCDC. I think everything has been going fine.”

Oshiomhole also dismissed the speculations that the meeting was set up to resolve the feud between him and Obaseki, stressed that it was a regular interface between the NWC and the Progressives Governors’ Forum (PGF)

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via: Information Nigeria

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