The All Progressives Congress (APC) has finally caved in to pressures from its governors, approving the use of indirect primary for the selection of the party’s candidates for the 2019 general election without recourse to the National Working Committee (NWC).
The party’s National Executive Committee (NEC) had at its last meeting approved direct primary for nomination for the party’s tickets but asked states that wanted to use Indirect primary to apply for approval from the NWC.
The governors had risen up in arms against this provison, pitting them against federal legislators who preferred the direct primary, which they felt would clip the wings of the states’ chief executives.
At Wednesday’s meeting of the governors with the NWC, the case for indirect primary was strongly made again and the governors had their way.
