Borno APC adopts indirect primaries

Stakeholders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in Borno State, yesterday, in Maiduguri adopted the indirect mode of conducting primary elections for all elective offices at the state level.

The deliberation leading to the adoption of the indirect primaries method was presided over by Governor Kashim Shettima, represented by Deputy Governor Usman Mamman Durkwa.

After the about one and half hours’ deliberation, Senator Muhammadu Ali Ndume, representing Southern Borno at the Senate, moved the motion for the unanimous adoption of the indirect/delegates mode.

He was seconded by Asabe Vilita Bashir, representing Gwoza, Damboa and Chibok LGAs at the House of Representatives.

Earlier, the Borno State chairman of the party, Alhaji Ali Bukar Dalori, speaking on behalf of the 37 executive council members of the party in the state, said they decided to adopt the indirect mode to avoid unnecessary rancour, adding that the party lacked the authentic list of its members who had been displaced by the Boko Haram insurgency.

Senator Abubakar Kyari and Rep. Mohammed Tahir Monguno, representing the Borno State members in the National Assembly; Senator Kaka Yale, representing former senators from the state; Isa Lawan Kangar, representing the state’s former House of Reps members; and Alhaji Adamu Shettima Dibal, representing the only two living former deputy governors of the state, all endorsed the adoption of the indirect mode.

However, a governorship aspirant, Engr. Kabir Wanori, speaking for majority of the aspirants who were not invited to the deliberation, dismissed the adoption of the indirect mode for Borno as “unfair and an injustice” done to them.

“Apart from the fact that we are not party to the arrangement, we do not even approve of the decision not to invite us to the decision making deliberation,” he said.