*Warns Against Preference For Any Aspirant*
For State Chairman of the All Progressive Congress, APC, these are tough times as the National Chairman of the party, Comrade Adams Oshiomole has warned them against working for the emergence of preferred candidates ahead of primary elections.
Oshimole gave the warning when he handed over membership registers to all State Chairmen, including that of the FCT for inward distribution to wards.
He said any State Chairman or party official that errs will be sacked for mismanagement of the process. He made it clear that party chairmen could be given the boot or sanctioned individually and collectively if they show open endorsement for aspirants, mutilation of membership registers, and hoarding of membership cards to favour certain aspirants, among other breaches.
.He said, “If you do that and it is not going to be secret, we will, without any hesitation, disband the entire executive. The NWC has the power without given reason to disband any executive which in its opinion is no longer fit and competent to represent the party in your respective states.
“There is only one party known to law, and that is the APC. So, please, resist any temptation. We have seen embarrassment where people go on Television canvassing positions of their governor or declaring one person as the sole candidate; you don’t have those powers. And if you do so, not only can you be dissolved, you can be prosecuted for breach of oath of office and oath of allegiance to the APC.”
Oshiomhole, who urged them to be neutral and fair to all aspirants assuring that the NWC would send men and women of integrity to conduct direct and indirect primaries to produce presidential, governorship, senatorial, House of Representatives, and State House of Assembly candidates for 36 States as well as the FCT.
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