EDO 2016 : Masari heads six-man panel for APC gov primaries

Kastina State Governor, Aminu Bello Masari and six others have been chosen by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, to conduct the Edo State governorship primaries scheduled to hold on Saturday.
This was made public during the inauguration of the committee at the APC National Headquarters, Abuja, on Thursday.
The party also inaugurated an election appeal committee which will be chaired by Opeyemi Bamidele, a former member of the House of Representatives alongside Mustapha Salisu and Ekwy Onyido.

National Organising Secretary of the party, Sen. Osita Isunazo who inaugurated the committees also reeled out  guidelines for the two committees.
He explained that 2873 delegates are expected to vote at the primaries that will be contested by twelve aspirants.
Isunazo said, “We have the ward delegates comprising of twelve persons per ward multiply by 192 wards in Edo State, we also have local governments’ delegates, 26 persons per local government multiply by 18 local government in Edo State, the State Executive Delegates, 35 and statutory delegates 66 totaling 2873 delegates.”
In response,  Masari assured the party leadership and all participants of a level playing field by ensuring that the primaries would be free and fair in the interest of all the aspirants.