Modalities for the conduct of the primaries of the All Progressives Congress will top the agenda as the APC governors converge on Ilorin, the Kwara State capital on Wednesday (tomorrow). It was learnt in Abuja, on Monday, that the governors would be meeting to harmonise positions on how best to hold a rancour-free Presidential primary. This is even as the party is putting finishing touches to its plans to hold an extra-ordinary convention to amend portions of its constitution. A leading member of the APC National Executive Committee, who pleaded for anonymity because he was not authorised to speak to the media, said the party wanted to “plug all loopholes.” The source said, “We intend to take another look at article 20 (iii) of the constitution to remove any ambiguity. “If you recall, the Buhari campaign raised the issue that the modified direct primaries agreed upon by the party was alien to our constitution. “Since we do not want to give anybody any excuse to go to court we have to make things right.” The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said, “Our (planned) amendments are varied. One of them is to ensure that our own constitution is in tandem with the Electoral Act, especially as regards the issue of electing our candidates. “Like we explained, the Constitution makes provisions for electing candidates but the Electoral Act says that the rules and the Constitution of the party must be explicit whenever they want to use indirect primaries. We don’t want anybody to be in doubt about what we are doing.” He further explained that the amendments being proposed were beyond the issue of number of delegates or mode but intended to have far reaching implications for administering the party. It was further learnt that the governors were also planning to use the Ilorin meeting to honour the immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, with a valedictory session. Copyright PUNCH.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH. Contact: editor@punchng
Posted on: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 05:28:25 +0000
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