The momentum gathered by the upcoming gubernatorial elections in Bayelsa state does not look like slowing down as the deputy national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Engr Segun Oni has assured Bayelsans that the party would not compromise standards in all its activities.
According to New Telegraph, Oni gave the assurance at the inauguration of the Bayelsa state governorship aspirants screening committee at the party’s national secretariat in Abuja. Oni said the previous committees and their works were testimonies to the position of the party on standards.
“We don’t cut corners in our primaries. The testimonies of primaries are abound,” he said.
He cited Kogi state governorship primaries as example. Oni also promised that the state’s primaries will be transparent.
“We will adhere strictly to our guidelines in conducting primaries that would be as transparent as possible. We were in Kogi and now we are going to Bayelsa. We have put together a perfect team to screen all the aspirants who completed and returned their forms for the governorship ticket.
“We have confidence in the ability of this team that has been carefully put together to do just the business of screening them. We are not screening for any predetermined result, we are screening just to find out if the individuals are qualified to contest the governorship election. If all of them are qualified, all of them would contest the primaries. We want Nigerians to know that here it is the people who are qualified to vote at the primaries that would vote,” he said
Meanwhile, political tension has started rising in Bayelsa state as it would be recalled that yesterday, September 9, an aide to Governor Seriake Dickson, Fyneman Wilson was kidnapped barely twenty four hours after he declared his re-election ambition on Tuesday, September 8.
According to reports, Wilson, the special adviser on political matters was kidnapped in the early hours of Wednesday in Sagbama local government area, Governor Dickson’s home town.
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