RIVERS 2019: PRO-ABE APC ADOPTS DIRECT PRIMARY FOR SELECTION OF GOVERNORSHIP CANDIDATE

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PORT HARCOURT, Rivers, Nigeria – The faction of the Rivers State APC has chosen direct primary as the electoral process through which all candidates for elective offices in the 2019 general elections will be selected. The State Chairman of the APC loyal to Senator Magnus Abe’s governorship ambition, Prince Peter Odike, stated in a communique issued at the end of the State Executive Committee (SEC) meeting held at the party secretariat, along And Road, Port Harcourt, on Monday, September 10.




“The state executive committee, unanimously adopts and affirms, the use of direct primary for choosing all our candidates in the forthcoming 2019 general election, as it affords party members the opportunity to participate in the process.”

The SEC emphasised: “The above decision is in consonance with the party’s position and the desire to make the elections in 2019 and beyond reflective of will and aspirations of the people.”

The communique also commended the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, and members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party “on their recent decision to entrench internal and Participatory democracy in the party through the approval of the use of direct primary as the mode of selecting candidates for election into our party.”

Prince Odike stressed that the SEC meeting at which the process of direct primary was adopted is “in pursuant to Article 12.1 and 12.8 of the APC constitution.”

The members of the SEC  of the Rivers APC “commended President Mohammadu Buhari for his style of leadership that has rekindled our belief and hope in democracy.” The communique concluded: “We restate our confidence and unflinching support for the leadership of Oshiomhole and President Buhari.”

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