A former member of the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Salihu Lukman, has said
it was quite worrisome that the party was almost set up for another electoral disaster in Edo State.
Lukman while reacting to the outcome of the APC Edo State governorship primary in a statement in Abuja yesterday, commended the Abdullahi Umar Ganduje-led National Working Committee (NWC) for saving the party from disaster.
According to him, if the NWC had not promptly intervened and upturned the February 17 primary election, the exercise would have caused a drift and confirmed APC as an undemocratic party.
The NWC had declared the Edo primary election, which held on Saturday, February 17, 2024 inconclusive following the emergence of three aspirants – Hon. Dennis Idahosa, Mr. Anamero Dekeri and Sen. Monday Okpebholo, all claiming to have won the primary.
But the Cross River Governor Bassey Out- chaired APC Edo election committee declared Sen. Monday Okpebholo as the candidate for the September 2024 election in the state.
Lukman noted everything about the February 17 APC primary election turned out to basically replay all the old scripts of attempts to manipulate the emergence of a particular aspirant as the Governorship candidate of the APC for Edo elections.
The former director general of the Progressives Governors Forum, said that was almost exactly the script acted in 2020 that produced Pastor Osagie Ize-Iyamu as the APC 2020 Edo State Governorship election.
