As a result of a six-day extension of the June 3 deadline for the conduct of political parties’ primaries by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has postponed its presidential convention.
The National Publicity Secretary, Felix Morka, said in a statement hours after INEC’s announcement.
The short statement read, “Following the Independent National Electoral Commission’s extension of deadline for the submission of candidate lists by political parties, the All Progressives Congress (APC) hereby postpones its Special Convention for Presidential Primary from Sunday, 29th-Monday, 30th of May, 2020, to Monday, 6th-Wednesday, 8th of June, 2022.”
INEC announced the extension of the deadline that political parties would conduct their primaries by six days on Friday evening.
The commission had initially announced a deadline of June 3 for the presidential primaries. The extension of the deadline covers the six-day period between June 4 and 9.
However, the People’s Democratic Party, PDP in a ‘special national convention’ today, Saturday, will elect its presidential candidate for next year’s polls.
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