The drama trailing the Kogi polls continues to unfold as the All Progressives Congress (APC) announced that it would conduct fresh primaries to determine a replacement for its late candidate, Abubakar Audu.
APC’s latest move of dumping Audu’s running-mate, James Faleke, to organise fresh primaries was disclosed on Tuesday, November 24.
The party’s national chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun, said delegates to the last primaries, which saw the emergence of the late candidate, would determine who becomes the candidate.
Odigie-Oyegun made this known in an interaction with journalists at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja.
The APC chieftain said that the fate of Faleke would be decided after conducting a fresh primary election.
He declared that: “As a party, we are going to proceed with process of organising primaries to provide a substitute candidate for the late Abubakar Audu.”
Oyegun noted that the development was informed by the attorney general’s order which requires the APC to replace the late Audu.
“He (attorney general) has made a pronouncement to the effect that all that is required is for the APC to go through the processes of providing a substitute to our late candidate.
“The INEC is also in agreement with the views of the attorney general because we have already received a letter from them formally asking us to find a replacement for the vacancy that has been created by the passing on of Prince Abubakar Audu.
“So that is what will engage the APC at this moment,” Oyegun informed.
He said the party would go into executive session Tuesday to decide on the modalities of the primaries.
The APC leader expressed his condolences to Audu’s family on behalf of the APC worldwide.
Audu’s death was announced on Sunday shortly after the INEC declared the election inconclusive.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has called for the immediate resignation of the attorney general of the federation, Mallam Abubakar Malami.
The call by the PDP was based on Malami’s alleged “harrying and misleading of INEC into arriving at an unconstitutional decision to allow the APC to substitute its candidate in the inconclusive election”.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Thanks