Fr Alia: Gemade calls for cancelation of Benue APC primaries

Senator Barnabas Gemade has today, 30th May, 2022 at the APC state secretariat submitted his petition to the gubernatorial election appeal panel sent to Benue state by the National secretariat of the party.

Presenting his petition on the entire exercise to the panel, he referred the committee to his earlier caution to the party on the 26th May, 2022 not to go ahead with the conduct of the election if its going to use the direct mode of primaries, as it will lead to litigations and the party will end up not fielding candidates in the 2023 elections, Comr Solo Dzuah Media and Publicity Aide to Sen. Gemade said in a statement.

The Senator expressed dismay that despite cautioning the party, it went ahead and conducted what could be described as a sham, with bogus results, votes allocated primitively to aspirants, while members of the party anxious to vote waited in vain at their various council wards headquarters without seeing any electoral officers or materials.

Senator Gemade further complained that even the adopted mode of primaries the committee used, was full of irregularities and electoral frauds, ranging from non availability of party registers, where even aspirants and their agents were denied voting.

The gubernatorial aspirant prayed for the cancellation of the purported exercise/results, and equally asked the committee for a fresh elections be conducted by the indirect mode as earlier recommended by the National Working Committee of the party to save it from drowning in 2023.