With COVID-19, direct primary is dangerous — Idahosa

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•APC used indirect primary in 2016, nothing has changed

EDO GOV POLL: With COVID-19, direct primary is dangerous — Idahosa
Chief Charles Idahosa

FORMER Commissioner for Information in Edo State, and a stalwart of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief Charles Idahosa, in this interview, spoke on Edo politics, the controversies trailing the mode of primary to be adopted in producing APC governorship candidate and why the party should retain the template used in 2016. Excerpts:

His take on whether Edo APC should adopt direct or indirect primary to select its governorship candidate

It is very clear that primary is a domestic issue of a political party. There is a Supreme Court judgement on that. Some party leaders are just out to do a lot of destruction just like they did in Zamfara and other states. What surprises me most is that all the leaders of the party are just waiting for Comrade Adams Oshiomhole to destroy the fabrics of the democracy of APC. Why they are doing that, I don’t know.

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Source: Vanguard Newspaper