Primaries: APC dispatches materials for direct mode

By Omeiza Ajayi
The National Working Committee NWC of the All Progressives Congress APC appears to have retreated from its push for consensus primaries ahead of Thursday’s House of Representatives shadow elections, bowing to intense pressure from aspirants and grassroots members across the country’s 360 federal constituencies.
The clearest signal of the policy reversal came when the party’s Organising Department dispatched election materials and result sheets to all states on Thursday — a development insiders interpreted as a green light for direct primaries.
The NWC had initially championed the consensus route as a mechanism for preserving party cohesion, but the groundswell of opp...