Adopt only use of direct primary, lawyer tells Oshiomhole

A Benin based lawyer and former Commissioner for Agriculture and Natural Resources, Barr. Eddy Ehi Osifo, has urged the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress to adopt the use of the direct primary for picking of its candidates in the future.

The use of direct primary, according to Barr. Osifo, would stop manipulations, rigging and all forms of corruption in the choice of picking candidates.

Barr. Osifo noted that what birthed the present confusion into the APC primary was the adoption of three method of election in its primary.

In a press statement issued in Benin City, Barr. Osifo said the Directorate of State Security (DSS) overreached itself and meddled in the internal politics of the APC.

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Osifo stated that President Muhammadu Buhari should have sacked the DSS officials involved in the detaining of Comrade Oshiomhole.

He said the APC would always be riddled with problems if President Buhari appealed to sentiments or emotions.

Osifo said the solution to the feud between Oshiomhole and some APC governors is to upheld arguments more in the interest of the country and the party.

According to him, “Mr. President has nothing to worry about with finding a solution to the current intra party problems in the APC.

“If only Mr. President can apply sound and unassailable principles to solve every party problem, he will discover that there is no insoluble problems facing the party.”