The All Progressives Congress (APC) has appointed Governor Umaru Al-Makura as chairman of the Party’s five-member primary election committee for the 2018 Ekiti governorship election.
The APC National Organising Secretary, Senator Osita Izunaso on behalf of the Party’s National Chairman, John Odigie-Oyegun also inaugurated a three-member primary appeal committee chaired by Amb. Fati Balla.
The primary election is scheduled for Saturday, May 5.
Other members of the primary election committee include: Hon. Magaji Aliyu (Secretary); Duke Oshodin; Barr. Robert Okwuego and Tunde Balogun.
The appeal committee include: Capt. Bala Jibrin (Secretary) and Lilian Obenwa.
During the inauguration of the committees at the Party’s national secretariat in Abuja, Izunaso who said the APC was poised to win the Ekiti governorship election, charged the committee to ensure a transparent exercise.
Izunaso declared that the party has no preferred candidate.
He said the committee should rely on the party’s guidelines for the nomination of candidates for public office, particularly section 14 (iii) which stipulates the composition of the Electoral College/delegates, secret balloting at a venue in the state capital and declaring winner an aspirant with the highest vote.
Izunaso who disclosed that the official delegates list has been given to all aspirants said no petition has been received on the list. He said all thirty-three aspirants have been cleared by the Party’s National Working Committee (NWC) to contest the primaries.
