• Uzodimma chairs panel on APC primary election
Edo State Chairman of the Labour Party (LP), Kelly Ogbaloi, yesterday, said the party has begun the screening process for delegates election/congresses ahead of the party’s primary scheduled for February 23.
Speaking with newsmen in Benin City during a delegates screening exercise, held at the LP Edo Secretariat, Ogbaloi said the 10-man screening committee is to ensure a fair process for the emergence of delegates for the party’s governorship primary.
Ogbaloi said the screening exercise is a traditionally required item in dealing with the internal politics of the party.
On his part, Edo State Labour Party Publicity Secretary and spokesman, Sam Uroupa, said that the screening exercise is to ensure that there is no hijacking of the process by political godfathers, adding that there would be no statutory or super delegates.
However, the Governor of Imo State, Hope Uzodimma, has been appointed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to lead a seven-member committee that will conduct the party’s governorship primary election in Edo State.
A statement by APC National Organising Secretary, Sulaiman Argungu, said the primary election has been slated for February 17.
Argungu said that the Governor of Cross River State, Bassey Otu, would serve as the deputy chair of the primary election committee.
