APC Adopts Direct Primary Method For Presidential Candidate, Indirect for Governors, Others

The National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress has adopted the direct primary method for the selection of its presidential candidate.

It also agreed that states should adopt the mode of a primary that best suits their peculiarities from among the methods specified in the party’s constitution.

The party, however, said states that would adopt the direct primary method should notify the national secretariat in writing before doing so.

This was part of the resolutions reached by the party’s second-highest decision-making body after its NEC meeting in Abuja on Thursday.