Ogun APC Crisis: Amosun, oOthers Agree on Direct Primaries

Governor Ibikunle Amosun and his loyalists in the Ogun State All Progressives Congress (APC) may have finally bowed to the directive of the party’s National Working Committee (NWC) for states to conduct direct primaries in selecting candidates.

This followed the alleged rejection of the list of consensus candidates adopted by the governor by the national leadership of the party in Abuja.

Amosun, who had backed the emergence of Adekunle Akinlade as the consensus governorship candidate of Ogun APC, was said to have travelled with local government party chairmen to meet with the APC National Chairman, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole.

Sources within the party told our correspondent that the governor and his associates had gone to submit the list of his favoured candidates at the national secretariat.

The delegation was, however, reportedly asked to comply with the resolution of the recent meeting of the APC National Executive Committee (NEC) on primaries, which stipulates that primaries shall be conducted where more than one aspirant signifies interest through purchase of Expression of Interest and Nomination forms