Members of All Progressives Congress (APC), in Delta State who emerged victorious at the various primary election conducted to choose the party’s candidate for next year general elections to be conducted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) are still leaving in fear. For them, it is not Uhuru yet.
That they are still sleeping with one eye closed is not limited to the Wednesday, October 17, 2018 ruling of an Asaba High Court restraining the party from forwarding the name of Chief Great Ogboru, as its governorship candidate to INEC for 2019 general elections until the case is disposed off.
The court had in a suit filed by some aggrieved members, ordered the party not to submit the name following a complain that there are two factions of the party claiming that its aspirants won the primary election which was held in Asaba the state capital.
Similarly, candidates of the party for other elective positions like the Senate, House of Representatives and the state House of Assembly, are said to have all temporarily relocated to Abuja to keep a tap on party’s nomination to INEC to guard against someone deleting their names and inserting some else’s name as the candidate.
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“We are here to make sure that our list (names) are finally submitted to INEC,” one of the candidates, Mr. Paul Adingwupu, who was elected to represent Aniocha/Oshimili Federal Constituency was overheard telling a friend who saw him at the party’s headquarters instead of his Asaba, his constituency campaigning.
” We do not want to take chances. We want the name to get to INEC before we can be rest assured that we are candidates. We don’t want our names to be substituted.”
The outcome of APC’s primary election in most states have been marred with complaints which had forced the national leadership of the party to substitute names of those who claimed to have won the primaries earlier.
