Following the public outcry that trailed last Saturday’s governorship primary election in Edo State, the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress has declared the poll inconclusive.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Felix Morka, stated this in Abuja yesterday after the leadership of the party had an emergency meeting with the NWC at the party secretariat.
The controversial primaries conducted on February 17 produced three winners.
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The Chairman of the Electoral Committee of the primary, Governor Hope Uzodimma, had announced Dennis Idahosa as the winner while returning officer Stanley Ugboaja declared Monday Okpebholo as the winner.
In another place, Ojo Babatunde, who claimed to represent the returning officers in all the local governments, declared Anamero Dekeri the election winner.
Following the ensuing melee, both Dekeri and Okpebholo had written the appeal committee of the party to demand their certificates of return.
Another aspirant, Prof Oserheimen Osunbor, alleged on Tuesday that no election was held in the state despite results being announced.
Addressing journalists in Abuja yesterday, Morka disclosed that the election had not been completed, stressing that the process will continue on Thursday.
He said, “I am here to give you the outcome of the emergency meeting of the National Working Committee of our party held today regarding Edo State governorship primary election.
“At its emergency meeting held today, Tuesday, February 20, 2024, to consider the report on the Edo governorship primary election, the National Working Committee of our party deliberated and resolved that the governorship primary election has not been completed and has now fixed Thursday, February 22 for the completion of the APC Edo State” primary election process.”
Meanwhile, the party’s National Chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, had earlier congratulated Idahosa on this emergence as the party’s candidate.
The decision by the National Working Committee, NWC of the Party may be connected to the fear of losing the state in the governorship poll, as factions have already broken out from the outcome of the primaries.
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