Only credible candidates are acceptable for legislative by-elections — Buni tells panel

By Tunde Opalana

The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Caretaker/Extra-Ordinary National Convention Planning Committee, Governor Mai Mala Buni, has said that the party would only accept credible candidates for the October 31 concurrent legislative by-elections scheduled to be conducted across eight states of the federation, according to findings by Daily Times. 

Representing Governor Mai Mala Buni, the Secretary of the APC Caretaker Committee, Senator John Akpan Udoedeghe, stated this while inaugurating the party’s screening and appeal committees for the by-elections at the APC National Secretariat, Abuja.

The committees are saddled with the responsibility of screening APC candidates for the by-elections. 

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Senator Udoedeghe further stated that the party was moving in a new direction and would ensure that things were done properly. 

He charged the members of the committees to be fair to all the aspirants and ensure that only those with impeccable records in their careers were chosen as APC candidates. 

Responding on behalf of the other members, Prof Stephen Ocheni assured that the members of the screening and appeal committees would discharge their assignment with fairness and a sense of responsibility.

Ocheni, who was a former Minister of State, Labour and Productivity, expressed gratitude to the national leadership of the party for the confidence reposed in them and for giving them the task to perform on behalf of the party. 

According to the party’s schedule of activities for the legislative by-elections, screening of aspirants will be held on Wednesday, August 26 and Thursday, August 27, 2020. Claims and objections will be published on Friday, August 28, while the screening appeal takes place on Tuesday, September 1, and primary elections conducted at different constituencies on Thursday, September 3, 2020.