Why Osun governorship primary election was postponed – APC

The All Progressives Congress has revealed the reason for postponing the Osun state governorship primary election.

The party’s spokesperson, Bolaji Abdulliah, through a telephone interview with Premium Times said that the election was postponed for logistics reasons.

”Maybe you should speak to the electoral committee, but to the best of my knowledge, the election was postponed because of logistics reasons,” he said.

When asked what the logistics reasons were,Abdullahi said, ”When you want to conduct an election you would have to print out ballot papers, collate documents, get the list ready.

”And when the chairman of the electoral committee checked yesterday that they would need another 24 hours to put all in place, so it is only for that reason why it was postponed, ” he added.

Transparency

Spokesperson of the governor of Zamfara state, Ibrahim Dosara, also said the reason for the postponement was to aid better transparency in the electoral process.

“It is normal for people to have complaints, it is democracy. It is the intention of INEC and the present administration of President Muhammadu Buhari to make everything transparent as far as election is concerned in Nigeria. So nobody is trying to manipulate anything,” he said.

He said the reason why the National Executive Committee of the party was called on Thursday was to demonstrate to all the aspirants that the election cannot be manipulated ”

”It is the party’s intentions to make it free and fair. There is nothing like intention to manipulate the election. The APC promised that on no account should anybody be manipulated,” he said.