There are strong indications that a section of the leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, is mounting pressure on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to extend the deadline for presidential primaries.

The Ebonyi State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Wednesday explained that the shooting that took place at the Party Secretariat on Tuesday evening, was not by unknown gunmen but by security operatives in the State.

A group of stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress(APC), Ebonyi State, yesterday warned that the imposition of Governor David Umahi’s preferred Governorship candidate and Speaker of Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Rt Hon. Francis Nwifuru, on Ebonyi citizens, would spell doom for the Party in the 2023 general election.

Kinsmen and political allies of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige have made a passionate appeal to the leaders of All Progressives Congress, APC, to ensure that Ngige emerged as the party’s flag bearer after the primaries.

Southern governors, senators and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, yesterday, insisted that power must shift to the South, next year, to ensure equity, justice and fair play in the country.