Onazena Abbey, Benin-City
The Edo State Chapter of the Association of Local Government Chairmen of Nigeria (ALGON) has condemned direct primaries proposed by the All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC), in the state’s gubernatorial election.
Chairman of ALGON in the state, who is also the chairman for Oredo Local Government Area of the state, Jenkins Evbareke Osunde, while addressing newsmen, said it was shocking to propose a Direct Primary process for a political party in the current season of global pandemic.
According to him, “Edo State ALGON is shocked that the National Working Committee (NWC) of our party had supposedly opted to conduct a Direct Primary process of nomination for Edo Governorship”.
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The state’s ALGON boss, who was represented by , Comrade Osi Akhigbe posited that, “We believe that the members of the NWC will not want to be chronicled as the political leaders who were willing to sacrifice the lives of their members for the ungodly advantage of securing a political advantage in an election.
“We cannot, in good conscience, support a political exercise that will put the health of our people in grave danger, we are indeed shocked that anyone or group of persons with genuine concern for the lives of Edo people will, at this point in time, be proposing a massive gathering of people with all the local and global best practice prescription of ‘social distancing’ discarded for all kinds of contorted excuses.
Akhigbe added that, ” ALGON resolution in Edo is that INDIRECT PRIMARY is the safest option, the most humane and healthy alternative for the APC2020 Governorship Primaries.”
