Emerhor’s Gaffe, Emerges As ‘Candidate’ In Delta While APC’s NWC Postponed Senate Primary

Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Delta State and Senatorial hopeful Olorogun Otega Emerhor on Tuesday goofed as his faction went about the party’s senatorial primary unknowning to him that the APC NWC has postponed the exercise till Wednesday nationwide.

Emerhor made the blunder in a factional exercise held at the Ughelli General field in Ughelli North LGA where he was said to have emerged winner in the Chief Cyril Ogodo faction of the party after scoring 2,492 votes against his arch-rival, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege who polled 4 votes.

While this was ongoing, the APC national leadership announced the postponement of the party’s Senate primaries in the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to Wednesday, October 3.

The party for the third time also postponed the governorship primary in Imo state.

Acting National Publicilty Secretary, Yekini Nabene, in a statement obtained by BigPen Online, said the APC National Working Committee (NWC) ordered the governorship primary in Imo state which held on Tuesday be suspended indefinitely.

“The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed the Party’s Senate Primaries in the 36 States and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) to Wednesday, October 3, 2018.

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“The Imo State governorship primaries have also been suspended indefinitely”.

In the same vien, the party said it had not cleared former Inspector-General of Police, Suleiman Abba, to contest the party’s Jigawa South Senatorial District primary.

It explained that Suleiman Abba’s name was erroneously included in the list of NWC-cleared aspirants.