Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress
Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Tuesday in Abuja said the party would pick a new candidate to replace Abubakar Audu, its candidate in the governorship poll in Kogi.
NAN reports that INEC on Tuesday announced that it would conduct supplementary election in the 91 units where it cancelled election on Saturday, on December 5.
Odigie-Oyegun made this known in a news conference and said that leadership of the party would go into closed-door session immediately to pick a date for a fresh primary to pick the candidate.
Audu died on Sunday and his death was announced shortly after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) declared the governorship poll which was conducted in the state on Saturday inconclusive.
The commission also said that APC was at liberty to replace its late candidate in the race.
According to Odigie-Oyegun, though mourning, APC will go into the meeting in the next few hours to decide a date for a fresh primary to choose another candidate to contest for the number one seat in Kogi.
“The first point I have to make of course is that INEC has made a pronouncement as to the election being inconclusive.
“As at this moment we are yet to get anything in writing from INEC specifying the details of the polling units that are involved.
“These are matters of detail. When we get a formal notification from INEC we will proceed on that point.
“It’s in the public space already that the chief law officer of the republic has made his views known on how things should develop from this stage on.
“He has made a pronouncement to the effect that all that is required is for the APC to go through the processes of providing a substitute to our late candidate.
“The implication …Read More
Source:: PM Newspaper
