The Governor of Jigawa State and Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Committee for the conduct of the party’s Governorship Primary in Ekiti State, Mohammed Abubakar Badaru, has assured every aspirant of a level playing ground in the party’s primary poll scheduled for Thursday.
Badaru said the committee had got instruction to adopt option A4 direct primary in conformity with the party’s guidelines to conduct the poll, stating that he was determined to organise a primary election that would be acceptable to all aspirants.
The Jigawa State Governor stated this in Ado Ekiti during interaction with the APC governorship aspirants in the state.
Badaru, however, revealed that maximum security would be made available across the 177 wards to safeguard the lives of voters and to tame those plotting to disrupt the conduct of the internal election.
Speaking about the modality for the conduct of the election, he said, “The party has a guideline in the conduct of direct primary, which is the accreditation of the party members after getting their voter cards and party membership slips carrying their photographs and their names should also be contained in the party registers in their respective wards.
“After this is done, the members would now queue behind the agents of their preferred aspirants in each ward before counting. It is whatever that is counted across the wards and acceptable to all agents that will be collated and announced accordingly.
“I have my integrity to protect just like every other member of this committee. Nobody will be cheated. I have the assurance that we will end this primary with all aspirants commending us for doing a good job. We shall all laugh together after the process”.
Badaru further directed that each of the aspirants should nominate 20 persons that would work with the committee as local organising committee in the collation and transmission of results, revealing that the method was adopted to make the process more credible and acceptable.
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