AS controversy continues to greet the mode of primaries to be adopted in electing candidates of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC) in Bauchi state, a pressure group within the party known as the ‘Bauchi Youth Advocate for Good Governance’ has kicked against the adoption of the direct primary election system in the state, declaring that conducting an indirect primary election was safer in order to avoid any unforeseen crisis in the state. Auwal Garba said that “Bauchi state is among the vulnerable states in the North-East in terms of security. Also, a peculiar threat of Sara Suka (political thugs) and the battle to uproot them is yet to be completed. “It is the hope of this group that the National Chairman of the APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole will consider our stand on this matter of conducting a direct primary election given the risk involved and intervene as a matter of urgency and necessity,” he concluded. It would be recalled that the APC national Secretariat has purportedly designated Bauchi state as one of the states that are to use the direct primaries system in conducting the forthcoming primary election of the party.

Source: Nigerian Tribune September 27, 2018 12:22 UTC