APC consulting lawyers for response on Zamfara
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for clarity our position therefore is that the apc will not be fielding candidates for the governorship national assembly and state assembly elections in zamfara for the 2019 general elections1 the all progressives congressapc is consulting its lawyers in its legal department to file a reaction on the eligibility of its candidates to run in zamfara state in the 2019 election1 the letter signed by okechukwu ndeche the commissions acting secretary read failure to conduct primaries in zamfara state within the stipulated time-frame 1 please refer to the timetable and schedule of activities for the 2019 general elections released by the commission on jan. 9 20181 you would note that from the timetable the conduct of primaries is scheduled to take place between august 18 to oct 7 20181 however report received from our office in zamfara state shows that no primaries were conducted by your party in zamfara notwithstanding that our officials were fully mobilised and deployed1 consequently based on the provision of section 87 and 31 of the electoral act 2010 as amended the commission does not expect that your party will submit names of any candidate from zamfara state1 the independent national electoral commission inec said in a letter today that the party is not eligible to field candidates for governorship national assembly and state assembly positions in zamfara1 however the news agency of nigeria nan learnt from an authoritative source in the apc national secretariat that the party leadership would contact its legal department before responding on the matter1 the apc national working committee nwc had on oct. 5 dissolved the party executives at all levels in zamfara after contentious primaries said to have been conducted on wednesday 3 october and 4 october1 mr yekini nabena the apc acting national publicity had said that by the decision all party executives at all levels in zamfara were dissolved1 the dissolved party executives had claimed they conducted primaries on 3 october which picked a yari anointed candidate alhaji mukhtar shehu idris as winner of the governorship primary election and yari himself as winner of zamfara west senatorial ticket in a primary conducted 4 october. the nwc invalidated the results1 the nwc inaugurated a new committee which attempted to conduct the governorship and legislative primaries in the state between saturday october 6 to sunday october 71 the panel failed to conduct the elections because of the threats by governor abdulaziz yari to call out supporters in protest1