The national leadership of the APC yesterday affirmed that it had no preferred candidate even as it inaugurated a five-member committee headed by Governor Umaru Al-Makura of Nasarawa State to conduct the weekend primary election.

The APC’s National Organising Secretary, Sen. Osita Izunaso on behalf of the Party’s National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun also inaugurated a three-member primary appeal committee chaired by Amb. Fati Balla.

Izunaso said: “If we conduct a transparent primary, any aspirant that wins will surely become the next governor of Ekiti state. The party has no preferred candidate; there is no such thing in our lexicon. It does not exist. All aspirants are equal until after the election.