The National Working Committee NWC of the All Progressives Congress APC has shut down the clamour for zoning ahead of its Edo State Governorship Primary Election, next month.
This was as the party said it had adopted the direct mode of primary for picking its candidate for the Edo election.
APC also said it would attach a letter of undertaken to its nomination forms which aspirants are expected to sign to indicate that whatever the outcome of the primary election, they would not go to court.
According to the ruling party, only one of the 29 aspirants has picked his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms, urging stakeholders to work towards pruning the number to a manageable size.
Deputy National Publicity Secretary of the party, Duro Meseko disclosed this at a news conference Tuesday in Abuja.
“There will be no zoning. Not at all”, said Meseko.
The NWC had on Monday night held a meeting with Edo State APC stakeholders at the national secretariat.
Speaking on the outcome of the meeting, Meseko said; “The NWC has approved direct primary as the mode of election to produce the Governorship Candidate of the party for the state.
“In view of the large number of aspirants, 29, as of last night, the NWC urged stakeholders to unite and see to how we can achieve some reasonable number of aspirants.
The stakeholders were urged to devise a method to agree on some form of consensus to trim the number of Aspirants.
“The NWC urged aspirants to be disciplined and shun the temptation of rushing to the courts immediately after primaries”, he stated.
Meseko said it was also resolved that for the smooth running of the party, all members of the party in Edo strate should ensure strict compliance with their financial obligations to the party.
He said the electronic registration of party members shall no longer be conducted until after the primary in order not to derail the primary election in Edo State.
