Security was tight at voting centres in Badagry, Lagos State, on Thursday as All Progressives Congress members turned out to select their candidates in the senatorial and House of Representatives primaries, ahead of the 2019 elections.
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Kayode Opeifa, a Lagos West Senatorial aspirant on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, on Thursday, said that the interest of the party was uppermost to him.
The six-member Primaries Committee of the All Progressives Congress in Abia on Monday rescheduled the governorship primaries of the party for Tuesday, October 2.
Some All Progressives Congress stakeholders in Zamfara are meeting to avert crisis after Governor Abdulaziz Yuri kicked against arrangements made to conduct direct primary to select the party’s governorship candidate.
Thirty one political parties in Lagos state under the agies of Alliance for New Democratic Lagos have cautioned Lagos Governor’s Advisory Council, GAC not to obstruct democratic process but to allow credible party primaries to determine the second term aspiration of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode instead of pressurizing the governor to step down his quest for reelection in 2019.
Malam nuhu Ribadu has indicated interest to participate in the rescheduled Adamawa APC governorship primaries election, hours after he withdrew from the race.
Prof. Babagana Umara-Zulum has emerged winner of the All Progressives Congress governorship primary election in Borno.
Delegates of the All Progressives Congress in Plateau have affirmed Governor Simon Lalong as the party’s flag bearer to contest in the 2019 governorship poll in the state.
Some APC members in Bauchi on Sunday raised alarm over alleged use of ‘fake’ membership cards in the party primaries.
Governor Mohammed Bindow of Adamawa on Thursday said that he had no preferred candidate for the forthcoming primary elections in the state.
Jonathan Chukwuma, an House of Representative aspirant, has called on party delegates to vote according to their conscience in the forthcoming primaries ahead of the 2019 general elections.
Alhaji Sule Lamido, a former Governor of Jigawa and Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, has said he will not leave the party even if he loses primaries for the presidential race.
The All Progressives Congress has pledged to ensure compliance with the electoral guidelines, fairness and justice as well as observe all the principles of internal democracy while conducting its forthcoming party primaries.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Ugochukwu Theodore, told the News Agency of Nigeria in Lafia on Wednesday that four people died during the primary election in Garaku, headquarters of Kokona Local Government Area