The party at its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held yesterday in Abuja, approved the use of modified direct primaries for arriving at the choice of candidates for all subsequent elections.Regarding the governorship by-election scheduled for October 11 in Adamawa State, the party said it was demanding a temporary lifting of the dusk to dawn curfew currently in place in the state within the election period so as to guarantee mass participation by the electorate.According to the party, the prospect of President Goodluck Jonathan emerging the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is not a source of worry but that what it is utterly concerned about is the threat of jettisoning a level-playing ground for an all-out impunity by the ruling party.
Addressing journalists shortly after the NEC meeting, the National Publicity Secretary of APC, Alhaji Lai Muhammed, said the party would insist that a level playing ground prevails in the 2015, noting that if a free and fair presidential election is conducted in the country, now, APC will defeat PDP. While explaining the NEC decision, Muhammed said the leadership had approved that direct primaries as opposed to the delegate format be used to elect party candidates for every election.
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