No fewer than 186 aspirants in Anambra
have so far obtained the All Progressives Congress (APC) nomination
forms to contest various positions in the 2015 general elections.
The state Publicity Secretary of the party, Okelo Madukaife
, announced this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Tuesday.
Madukaife said that out of the figure,
142 aspirants who scaled through screening, would contest the various
primaries of the party beginning on December 2nd with the House of
Assembly seats.
According to him, a break-down of the
successfully screened aspirants showed that 95 House of Assembly, 34
House of Representatives and three senatorial aspirants would vie for
the party’s primaries.
The publicity secretary said that the number of female aspirants was 32 while male aspirants were 110.
He explained that the party’s national
leadership approved the postponement of the House of Assembly primaries
from Dec. 1 to Dec. 4 due to the non-conduct of governorship primaries
in the state.
Madukaife expressed confidence that APC
would win majority of the elective seats in the polls but appealed to
the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to clean up its
voters’ register.
“INEC is aware that the compromised
register used for Anambra Governorship Elections in November 2013 was
not a secret, owing to the litigations that ensued on it.
“So we appeal to them as a party to
clean up the register and go ahead to hold clean elections that conform
to the Electoral Act,” he said.
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