By Gabriel Enoghlase

BENIN—NATIONAL Chairman of All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie Oyegun, Governor Adams Oshiomhole and National Vice Chairman of the party (South- South), Prince Hilliard Eta, weekend, assured party faithful and governorship aspirants of a free and fair governorship primary slated for June 18, 2016.

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The leaders who spoke at a solidarity rally organised by the zone inside Edo State Government House, warned all the governorship aspirants to avoid campaigns of calumny, infighting, and bigotry.

On his part, Eta said it was an established fact that in some states where the party had the opportunity to win elections through popular mandate, such opportunities were lost through preference for mediocrity.

He said: “This idea of imposition is not only unfortunate and regrettable but is one issue that we must guard against and we must address issues of internal democracy in the Edo poll. As we go into the primary election, one of you will emerge and whoever that person is, he is a candidate of all and his subsequent victory will be for all. For us as a party, we want to come back to Edo, have a roundtable with all the aspirants and decide on how to jointly move Edo forward from where Governor Oshiomhole has left it.

“The idea of getting it right on internal democracy has been our watchword and we successfully experimented with it in Kogi State. We must replicate it in Edo for us to succeed.”