Osun APC governorship primary now holds Friday
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what that means is that every card carrying member of our party will participate in the process of nominating the flag bearer of the party2 this for us is the most democratic way to conduct election and is in line with what our critical stakeholders from that part of the country want and we are quite happy to oblige he said1 the statement added that a meeting between the primary election committee chaired by gov. abdulaziz yari of zamfara and osun apc stakeholders would hold in osogbo the state capital on thursday1 the news agency of nigeria nan recalls that mr adams oshiomhole the apc national chairman on monday july 16 said the party would adopt the direct primary to pick its candidate for the osun governorship election1 we have decided that in order to ensure popular participation and to deepen democracy in osun state in-line with the provision of our partys constitution which allows for either direct or indirect primary we have resolved that the governorship election primary will be conducted on the basis of direct primary1 the all progressives congress apc primary to elect its candidate for the forthcoming osun governorship election has been postponed from thursday july 19 till friday july 201 the party announced the postponement in a statement issued by malam bolaji abdullahi its national publicity secretary on wednesday in abuja1 oshiomhole had explained that the essence was to allow more party members to participate in the process of nominating its candidates and to remove issues of corruption or monetising the processes1 he added that the direct primary would give party members a sense of ownership of the outcome of the exercise1 nan reports that all 17 aspirants who obtained the partys expression of interest and nomination forms to contest its ticket forthe governorship election slated for sept. 22 had all been cleared1 all political parties fielding candidates for the osun governorship election has up to monday july 23 to submit the name of their candidates for the election to the independent national electoral commissioninec1 a political party could however substitute its candidate afterwards if the need arises1