The Benue chapter of the All Progressive Congress (APC) said it has completed the distribution of electoral materials to 23 local government areas for its presidential primaries.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Working Committee (NWC) has appointed respective state governors to serve as Returning Officers for the Presidential Direct Primaries.

Mallam Dauda Lawal was born on 2 September 1965 in Gusau, Zamfara state. He bagged a Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.Hons) Political Science from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, in 1987 and earned a Master of Science (M. SC.) in Political Science/International Relations from the same university in 1992. Until September 2017, he was Executive Director, Public Sector Group, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, a bank he joined as a manager in 2003. He spoke on his governorship bid in an interactive session with the media recently.

The All Progressives Congress, APC will be holding its governorship primaries on the 29th September, 2018. One state the ruling national party hopes to pick up in the 2019 general election is Delta State where the political environment strongly favours APC. With very low popularity of the incumbent PDP governor, Dr. IfeanyiOkowa and electorates clamouring for change, conditions are quite right for an APC victory in the state’s gubernatorial election.

Ahead of the Osun rerun governorship election, a confident Senator Iyiola Omisore said his Social Democratic Party and the ruling All Progressives Congress will form a coalition to govern the state after the election.