THE primary election to elect Peoples Democratic Party, PDP State House of Assembly candidates for the 2015 general election was peacefully conducted across the state. The election which was supervised by the PDP state Electoral Panel sent from the National Secretariat of the party distributed the electoral materials to all the Returning Officers in each local government areas of the state amidst tight security. The materials were distributed in the presence of security operatives, PDP delegates, newsmen, Returning Officers and party supporters as no act of violence was recorded throughout the exercise. Speaking with newsmen, the leader of the team and Chairman of the Panel, Senator Ben Collins Ndu said they were in the state to conduct the State House of Assembly primary election even as he debunked the insinuations in some quarters that the election was postponed. If the election was postponed we wouldnt have been here; we came from the National Secretariat of the party. We are members of the State House of Assembly Panel for the conduct of the election. We are comfortable were we are; We appreciate your presence and will be fair to all manner persons. We want them to conduct themselves peacefully;I pray God to see us through. Other members of the team include: Hon. Aliyu Bindawu secretary, Hon. Sani Aminu, Rt. Hon. Simon Dogari, and Hajiya Yelwa sani. In his remarks, the Acting State PDP Chairman, Chief Onwe Joseph Onwe stressed that no person has the right inform the public that the election was postponed when there was nothing like that I call on our party faithfuls, supporters and aspirants to be calm and law abiding as the conduct of the election was going on smoothly.
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 06:50:41 +0000
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