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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has directed political parties wishing to adopt the Direct Primary mode to elect their candidates for the Edo and Ondo governorship elections to submit their membership register to the Commission. The Commission noted this will allow for effective monitoring of the party primaries. It also requested to be furnished with the list of delegates by the political parties that opted for the Indirect Primary mode. The APC and the…

•Obaseki, Akeredolu to brace for shadow polls •APC governors praise Sanwo-Olu on COVID-19 THERE may be no going back on transparent and democratic primaries for the choice of governorship candidates by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Edo and Ondo states, it was learnt yesterday. THE NATION reports that at a meeting with nine APC governors, National Leader Asiwaju Bola Tinubu said democratic primary as a core element of internal democracy should not be jettisoned….

By: Oluwatosin Adesola As battle for sole governorship ticket of the governing All Progressives Congress (APC) is heating up ahead of its July 20, 2020 primary in Ondo state, a gubernatorial Aspirant on the party’s platform, Hon Isaacs Kekemeke has declared that no member or chieftain of the party including aspirants and incumbent are bigger than the political party. Kekemeke, a former Secretary to the Ondo State Government (SSG) during the Agagu’s administration, told newsmen…

By: Oluwatosin Adesola ONDO 2020: LEAVE US ALONE, YOU ARE THE WORST PLAGUE THAT EVER AFFLICTED ONDO APC, GROUP TELLS OYEGUN. An interest Group within the ruling All Progressives Congress in Ondo State, APC Youths Assembly, has slammed the immediate past National Chairman of the Party, Ch. John Odigie Oyegun, over his recent comment on the forthcoming governorship election in the State, saying he lacks the moral responsiblity to advise the Party on how to…