Leaders, aspirants meet over logjam in Ekiti APCs primaries
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he added that the meeting took a decision on what would be best for the party and the country generally1 south west leaders have stepped into the logjam in ekiti governorship primaries of the all progressives congress apc involving 33 aspirants1 former national chairman of the party chief bisi akande said after the meeting that they would advise the partys national leadership on the proposed fresh primary in ekiti1 we are going to talk to the party about what the aspirants have said and what we all think is best and we know that the party will take the right decision1 we are going to convey our resolution to the party and the party will be able to tell you he said1 the leaders met on tuesday in abuja with the aspirants for the partys ticket for the july 14 governorship election in ekiti1 on whether a consensus candidate would be considered for the election akande said that may be an option for the aspirants1 consensus is already in our constitution and it is an option also primary election is already in our constitution1 but what we want is the general happiness of the leaders of the party the contestants and our party he said1 he however added that the aspirants were asked to think about arriving at a consensus candidate ahead of the rescheduled primary slated for friday1 the party on saturday conducted a primary election to pick its candidate for the ekiti poll but the exercise was marred by violence which led to its cancellation by election committee. nan1