NDC To Conduct Fresh Primaries

The Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC), has stated it is going to conduct recent primaries to fill the vacancies created by the defection of a few of its candidates to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

The NDC nationwide publicity secretary, Osa Director who disclosed this in a press release on Tuesday, stated the motion is
in step with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2026.

The occasion additionally accused the APC of inducing a few of its candidates with cash, political appointments and different materials incentives to leap ship and defect to the ruling occasion fold.

“It has come to the eye of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) that some candidates of our occasion have been bribed by the APC to defect to the ruling and ruinous All Progressives Congress (APC), clearly for pecuniary causes.

“The NDC is absolutely conscious of the determined and malicious ways of the APC, which has resorted to providing cash, political appointments, and different materials incentives to induce some cash minded candidates of our occasion to leap ship and defect to its sinking fold.

“For those that have fallen for this bait, it’s clear that they lack the values, virtues, and ideological dedication related to our nice occasion. They have been by no means actually of us. To them, we are saying good riddance to dangerous garbage, and we want them luck of their political misadventures.

“In line with the provisions of the Electoral Act, 2026, the occasion will instantly conduct recent congresses to elect credible, competent, and reliable candidates to exchange the defectors within the affected constituencies

“We want to reassure our teeming occasion members, supporters, and well-meaning Nigerians to not be perturbed by the antics of the ruling occasion in bribing just a few of our members. These are the final kicks of a dying horse that has seen the handwriting on the wall of its imminent defeat.

“The NDC stays resolutely dedicated to its historic mission of rescuing our nation from the vice grip of the buccaneers in energy and giving Nigerians the great governance, safety, and prosperity they so richly want, the assertion added.