BREAKING: APC reschedules presidential primary election, others

The National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, Mr. Felix Morka has announced a new date for the party’s presidential primary election. The election has been rescheduled to hold on May 29th, 2022.

It will be recalled that the primary election was earlier scheduled to hold between May 30 and June 1, 2022.

The party spokesperson disclosed this while addressing journalists on Wednesday after the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party.

“Our special convention on presidential primaries will now take place between Sunday 29th May to Monday 30th of May 2022.”

The party spokesperson also revealed that the mode of primary to elect the presidential candidate of the party would be made known in the guidelines that would be made available by the party.

Morka noted that the NWC has also approved a revised timetable schedule of activities for the House of Assembly, National Assembly and Governorship primaries.

He also said APC has rescheduled its governorship and House of Representatives primaries to Thursday, May 26.

The APC earlier fixed its governorship primaries for May 20, House of Assembly, May 22, House of Representatives May 24, and Senate May 25.

The APC scribe said the party’s Senate and House of Assembly primaries has also been rescheduled to hold on Friday, May 27.

He said the new dates were approved by the party’s National Working Committee at its meeting on Wednesday.

The statement read, “The National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress on Wednesday, 18th of May, 2022, approved an adjusted Timetable/Schedule of Activities for the Governorship, State House of Assembly, House of Representatives, Senate and Presidential primaries and appeals as follows:

“Governorship and House of Representatives – Thursday, 26th of May, 2022.

“Senate and House of Assembly – Friday, 27th of May, 2022.

“For election appeals: Governorship and House of Representatives – Friday, 27th of May, 2022.

“Senate and House of Assembly – Saturday, 28th of May, 2022.

“Special convention for presidential primaries holds Sunday 29th – Monday, 30th of May, 2022.”

The APC Deputy National Chairman, North, Abubakar Kyari, earlier said that the party had about 145 governorship aspirants, 351 senate aspirants and 1,197 House of Representatives aspirants.