Nasarawa State Governor Abdullahi Sule has claimed that governors were not against direct primaries in the 2023 elections.
He made this claim on Sunday night Abuja during a Citizens’ Town Hall meeting on Electoral Bill 2021 organised by Yiaga Africa and development partners.
According to him, the 36 state governors “are not afraid of direct primaries as being alleged by some Nigerians.”
He said what they opposed was limiting the choices of the people.
“In the APC constitution, we have three options: consensus, direct primaries and indirect primaries.
“The option should be left open and it will not be a surprise that some parties may even adopt direct primaries,” Sule said.
He said that governors were happy with the contributions made into the bill and from what he had heard, everyone was saying the same thing, thus the issue of the direct primaries should be removed.
Sule said, “I am not the closest (person) to the President but working with the President all this while, I can say that President Buhari would sign the bill into law once the right things are done.”
