Mohammed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reports,
The governor of Cross River State, Prof Ben Ayade, has been adopted to pick the Senatorial ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC, of the Northern District of the state.
Track News Nigeria gathered that the party is arranged to conduct a primary for his official adoption at Ogoja, the headquarters of the district to handover the ticket to the governor on Thursday.
As seen in a letter addressed to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC by the party’s National Chairman Dr Abdulahi Adamu and the National Secretary, Senator Iyiola Omisore , the APC provided three constituencies across the country including Cross River North whose ticket holders have withdrawn their candidacies to contest the 2023 election under its umbrella which warrants the conduct of fresh primaries to elect new candidates to replace them.
In the letter, Mohamed Oluwatimileyin Taoheed reads that the constituencies are: Cross River North Senatorial district, Isa Sabon Bimi Federal Constituency, Sokoto State and Bauchi Federal Constituency, Bauchi State.
“Consequent upon their voluntary withdrawal, we write to notify the Commission that the party will conduct fresh primaries to nominate new candidates for the listed constituencies on Wednesday, 13 July to Friday, 15 July”.
When reached, Barrister Alphonsus Eba, who is the State Party Chairman, told Track News Nigeria that he has ordered that local government executives and wards plus party chieftains are to conduct ward congresses in the five local government areas that form the district on Wednesday and nominate delegates to vote in the said primary.
