APC PRIMARIES: ANAMBRA APPEAL PANEL PRESIDES OVER THE ELECTION ISSUES
The Anambra APC Governorship Primaries Appeal Panel which started sitting yesterday concluded same in the wee hours of today.
The sitting presided over by the HE Inuwa Yahaya, Governor of Gombe State was concluded in the Gombe State Liason Office, in Abuja.
The session gave audience to aspirants and private petitioners alike.
Mrs Ijeoma Arodiogbu is the secretary of the five-man panel which also has Sen.Julius Ucha, Hajia Maryam Salifu, and Alhaji Bukar Dalori as members .
Sources close to the meeting hinted of a convivial session, in a panel whose focus was in extracting views towards a solution, more than trial , as the multiple tendering of INEC’s negative report on the primaries virtually closed the issue of whether primaries were held or not.
Yet there were mind-boggling revelations of what went wrong in the attempt to hold free and fair primary elections for the party in Anambra State.
The panel eventually wound up sitting at around 2.07am Saturday July, 2021.
Those who testified according to our source included a lawyer and non-aspirant who confessed that he was wiser to the location of sensitive materials meant for the botched elections , away from the reach of aspirants and their agents.
The panel is expected to submit its report between Saturday, July 03 and and Monday,July 05,2021.
APC has until July 9,2021(Friday next week) to submit the name of its candidate to the Independent National Electoral Commission(INEC), in order to make the list of political parties to contest the governorship election on November 6,2021.
All thoughts are tilted towards the consensus candidate option for APC to make it on the ballot.
Many of the 11 surviving aspirants, nine of which petitioned the panel are maintaining sealed lips on the latest development.
Indications from sources close to the National Caucus, however, speak of frenetic consultation around a shortlist, with most aspirants holding firmly to the view that ‘no one should benefit from an infraction ‘.
