Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, chairman of the All Progressives Congress governorship primaries in Kwara State, on Thursday said the scheduled Kwara governorship primary was postponed till Friday due to logistic issues.
“We postponed the election due to logistic issues. We came in late and we needed to be fair to all and to be able to have an effective management of the election, we needed a full day to do that,” he said.
Speaking with journalists at the party’s secretariat shortly after meeting with the APC governorship aspirants behind closed doors, he said the committee is ready and the election will hold on Friday across the state.
10 governorship aspirants attended the strategic meeting on Thursday evening.
Those in attendance included Abdulfatai Yahaya Seriki, Dr Bashir Omolaja Bolarinwa; Prof. Wale Sulaiman; Engr Femi Sanni; Dr Tajudeen Alabi; Aisha Ahmad-Patigi; Mohammed Bio; Musiliat Yetunde Adebowale; Dr Muideen Salako; and Captain Ahmad Mahmoud
Obanikoro called on all the aspirants to see the victory of anyone among them as a collective victory for the success of the party.
“We should see victory belonging to one as belonging to all. Nobody should take victory of a member of his family as something against his personal interest, if it is true that the interest of the party is supreme.
“It is a family meeting. I am a member of APC from Lagos state and I am here to have a conversation with members of the APC family.
“On this particular day, we met on the issue of governorship primaries coming up tomorrow and we sat down to have a frank conversation with ourselves that we are all members of one family,” Obanikoro declared.