Osoba Backs Direct Primary
Osoba Backs Direct Primary
Former Ogun Governor Olusegun Osoba has declared support for direct primary for the choice of candidates by political parties.
The eminent politician urged President Muhammadu Buhari to give assent to the Electoral Act Bill, which now contains direct mode as approved by the National Assembly.
Osoba, an All Progressives Congress (APC) elder, described President Buhari as a product of direct primary.
Hale and hearty, he said eyes were on the country as it warms up for future polls.
Osoba Backs Direct Primary
The delegation comprises of Senator Solomon Adeola (APC, Lagos West); Senator Kashim Shetima (APC, Borno Central); Senator Isah Jubril(APC, Kogi East); Senator Micheal Nnachi(PDP, Ebonyi South); Senator Ayo Akinyelure(PDP, Ondo Central); Senator Gershon Bassey(PDP, Cross River South); Senator Yusuf Abubakar Yusuf(APC, Taraba Central),; Senator Sadiq Sulaiman Umar(APC, Kwara North); Senator Tokunbo Abiru(APC, Lagos East); Senator Bashiru Ajibola(APC, Osun Central) and Senator Hassan Mohamed Gusau(APC, Zamfara Central).
Newera News gathered that Osoba said: “I have a feeling he will sign it. The president himself is a product of direct primary. He submitted himself to direct primary in 2019 throughout the country. Heaven did not fall.
“I said this to him and we must be honest when we are talking to our leaders. That is why I believe that the President, having been a product of direct primary, will sign the law for direct primary.”
He said this is the payback time for the executives to pay back the National Assembly that overwhelmingly passed the new electoral law to include direct primary.
What you show know about Olusegun Osoba
Chief Olusegun Osoba attended a series of professional courses after high school graduation from Methodist Boys High School Lagos. He obtained a diploma in journalism at the University of Lagos[1] and went for a one-year course in the United Kingdom on the scholarship of the Commonwealth Press Union in 1967. In 1969, he was studying in Bloomington, the USA at Indiana University‘s department of journalism. In 1974 he won the Nieman Fellowship Award for journalism for years of postgraduate study at Harvard University Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. He is the first Nigerian to have won this prestigious Nieman Fellowship for Journalism.
