The National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has disqualified two leading governorship aspirants in Ekiti State — Mr. Kayode Ojo and Mrs. Abimbola Olawumi — ahead of the party’s primary election scheduled for October 27.
The party also announced the dissolution of its Enugu State Working Committee, citing internal division and persistent factionalism within the state chapter.
Speaking to journalists after the NWC meeting held at the APC national secretariat in Abuja on Thursday, the Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Duro Meseko, said the committee reviewed the Ekiti governorship screening report and cleared Governor Biodun Oyebanji and Mrs. Oluremi Omolayo to contest the primary.
According to Meseko, Ojo and Olawumi were disqualified for failing to meet the constitutional and Electoral Act requirements. “The disqualification of the two aspirants was predicated on the fact that their filings did not conform with the provisions of the APC constitution and the Electoral Act. The NWC deliberated extensively on the screening report and reached this decision in the interest of due process and fairness,” he said.
On the dissolution of the Enugu State Working Committee, Meseko explained that the move was aimed at restoring peace and unity within the party, stressing that it had no link to the speculation surrounding Governor Peter Mbah’s planned defection.
