Division in APC over direct primaries as NEC meets today

A major division has emerged in the ruling All Progressives Party (APC) over the mode of conducting primaries to pick the party’s candidates for the 2019 general elections.

Sources in the party told newsmen yesterday that majority of the party’s governors rejected the idea of adopting a direct primaries approach favoured by APC National Leader Bola Tinubu and National Chairman Adams Oshiomhole.

The party’s National Executive Committee is meeting today to take a final decision on the method and timetable of the primaries.
Tinubu and Oshiomhole are said to have convinced President Muhammadu Buhari on the efficacy of a direct primaries approach, but most of the governors and some leading figures in the party have rejected it.

~Daily Trust.