- Sources familiar with the development disclosed that the meeting is not unconnected with the parallel primaries held last Saturday
Following the political conundrum that characterised the primary election of the All Progressives Congress for the Edo State gubernatorial election, the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party held an emergency meeting on Tuesday.
The party’s national chairman, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, presided over the closed-door meeting which is took place at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Tuesday night.
The agenda and details of the meeting have not been made public, but sources who are familiar with the development disclosed that it is not unconnected with the parallel primaries held last Saturday in Edo State.
Three different candidates had emerged from the primaries which was meant to produce the party’s flagbearer for the September 21 election in the state.
The development comes 24 hours after Hon. Anamero Dekeri, one of the aspirants in the primary, stormed the party’s national secretariat and demanded certificate of return from Ganduje.
Dekeri had claimed he polled the highest number of votes in Saturday’s exercise.
While a member of the House of Representatives, Dennis Idahosa, was announced winner by the chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee, Governor Hope Uzodimma, at Protea Hotel, Benin; Senator Monday Okpebholo was declared winner at the primaries which held at the residence of Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu, while the spokesman of the local government returning officers, Ojo Babatunde, later declared the member representing Etsako Federal Constituency at the House of Representatives, Anamero Sunday Dekeri, winner of the contest held in another location of the city.