About 3, 500 delegates would be voting at the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primaries in Kogi State on Saturday, a source at the national secretariat of the party revealed.
Twenty-eight aspirants who were screened and cleared would be contesting for the governorship ticket in Lokoja, the venue of the primaries. The Deputy National Chairman, North, Sen. Lawal Shuiabu yesterday inaugurated the seven-man committee that would conduct the primaries.
The seven-member committee headed by the governor of Kaduna State, Mallam Nasir El- Rufai has Sen. Magnus Abe, Alhaji Ibrahim Sarki, Mrs Omorge Osifor, Mr. Mohammad Wali, Mr Lanre Asiwaju and Mr Greg Egwu as members.
The National Organising Secretary of the APC, Sen. Osita Izunaso, in his remarks, charged the committee to take the jobs they are assigned to do serious. He said that the party in the state will be fully involved, adding that all State executives of the party in the state are delegates who will be participating in the election in the primaries.
“You should hold a stakeholders meeting first and introduce yourselves as those who are called for these assignment; the party also requests that you should reach out to security agencies in Kogi State, the SSS, the Police and other security agencies upon, arrival so that they won’t say they were not informed,” he said.
He also said that the Chairman of the committee will be the returning officer for the election primaries, adding that once the exercise starts it must not be stopped half way. “Once you start the accreditation, you cannot postpone, once you commence, you must complete and the winners will be announced on the spot, it is not something you will go and compile and come back, it is not allowed.
