Kogi Guber: Danger Signs For APC As Court Gives Order On Primaries

By Augustine Adah

Unless the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, move quickly to resolve the ongoing crisis in the party, it may lose the November 16 governorship election in the state as crisis over the method to be adopted in the August 29 primary of the party is raging.

It would be recalled that some aggrieved members of the state executive and governorship aspirants of the party opposed to indirect primaries to elect the governorship flag bearer of the party has challenged the decision of the National Working Committee, NWC, over the decision.

On Friday, Justice Taiwo Taiwo-led Federal High Court sitting in Abuja ordered parties to maintain status quo in the suit challenging the plan by APC in the state to adopt indirect primaries for the August 29 election.

Four aggrieved members of the Kogi State executive committee of APC had filed an ex parte application asking the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to restrain APC in Kogi State from adopting Indirect voting mode in selecting its candidate for the primary.

The aggrieved members are: Destiny Aromeh, Isa Abubakar, Noah Aku and Joy Onu and the defendant is APC in the state. The aggrieved members are of the opinion that the indirect voting mode will not provide a level-playing ground for a democratic candidate to emerge.

However, the judge ordered that parties should maintain status quo for the court to give accelerate hearing to the main suit rather than grant the interim injunction been sort.

Kogi State has been under the control of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from 2003 until the party was defeated in November 2015 governorship by APC.

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