Even as clear court orders continue to fly around and in the main media regarding who is what at the leadership of All Progressives Congress (APC), the factional acting national chairman of the party, Chief Hilliard Eta has sworn in a new Deputy National Secretary in the person of Mr. Worgu Boms.
At a brief ceremony in Abuja, Eta said the swearing-in of Boms is as a result of the vacancy in the office of the deputy national secretary.
He explained that Victor Giadom who, according to him, is parading himself as the acting APC National Chairman is no longer a member of the party having resigned to contest the Rivers State governorship election in 2019.
Eta performed the swearing in shortly after Giadom asked the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to disregard the governorship primary election in Edo State.
He made the appeal in a letter addressed to the INEC Chairman, Professor Mahmood Yakubu, and received by the electoral umpire.
In the letter dated June 18, 2020, Giadom asked INEC not to give support to direct primary election conducted by a committee chaired by the Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma.
Meanwhile, one of the APC governorship aspirants in the Edo election, Pastor Osagie Iyamu, has won the party’s primary election in Edo State.
According to the Chairman of the APC Primary Election Committee and Imo State Governor, Senator Hope Uzodinma, Ize-Iyamu emerged winner after defeating two other aspirants – Pius Odubu and Osaro Obaze.
While Ize-Iyamu polled 27, 838, his other rivals garnered 3,776 votes and 2,724 votes respectively.
The factional primary election is however hanging on the balance as the Federal High Court in Benin adjourned till July 6 the case to determine the mode of the primary election of the All Progressives Congress to choose its flag bearer for the governorship election in Edo State.
There are many other litigations still lurking over the APC now and in the future, which makes the party, as it stands, a politically endangered specie.
