The All Progressive Congress(APC) primary earlier slated for Monday
June 12, to pick a candidate for the vacant senatorial district in Osun
West has been postponed till Tuesday, June 13.
The postponement became necessary following appeal by a commissioner
in the state, Sen. Mudashir Hussein, who is one of the two aspirants
scrambling to clinch the ticket but was disqualified by a 5-man
screening panel on Sunday.
Husein’s disqualification was predicated on the APC’s guidelines and
electoral law, which stipulate that individual in the public service
employment must, as a matter of importance resign or withdraw his/her
appointment 30days to the day of election.
Husein, however approached a 3-man appeal panel headed by the former
deputy governor of Kogi state, Alhaji Abdullahi Bello, to seek for
redress, as he claimed to have resigned on June 6.
Announcing the postponement on a social media platform in the early
hours of Monday, the Commissioner for Information and strategy in Osun,
Lani Baderinwa explained that further information on the process of the
primary and proceedings of the appeal panel would be communicated to the
public.
“The APC appeal panel has postponed the West Senate primary to
Tuesday, June 13,2017 as against earlier scheduled Monday, June 12,
2017. Further information shall be made available soon,” Baderinwa
resorted.
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