By Our Reporter
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has refuted reports that the party has nullified the governorship primaries in Benue State. The state APC protested that the report trending social media is malicious, false and designed to destroy the transparency, freeness and fairness of the governorship primary election APC held in Benue State, which was clearly and comprehensively won by Hyacinth Alia, a Catholic Priest.
The Benue APC, in a statement by the State Publicity Secretary, Daniel Ihomun, insisted that Hyacinth Alia was elected APC governorship candidate for the 2023 elections by majority of the delegates at the primaries. The party maintained that no amount of blackmail, lies, and propaganda would change his emergence. The state APC, therefore, appealed to the general public in Benue State and beyond, to disregard the baseless insinuation, saying it lacks substance.
Daniel Ihomun declared: “The Benue APC wants to make it abundantly clear that Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Alia has been chosen by the majority of APC members and no amount of blackmail, lies and cooked up propaganda against his candidacy will see the light of day.
“The APC is more than ready to take back Benue and to bring development to the state which has suffered the worst maladministration.
The Head of Media of the Alialization ’23 Campaign Organisation, Kula Tersoo, also in a statement, declared: “Members of the public, great APC family, supporters and fans of Rev. Fr. Hyacinth Iormem Alia should not take serious fake stories on the social media that the APC Election “Appeal Panel” has cancelled the just concluded gubernatorial primaries conducted in the state.
“This is a crude lie. A wicked concoction by enemies of the state to get temporary relief from acute fever they caught following Alia’s victory at the direct primaries of the party.”
Kula Tersoo asserted that the “document being circulated on the cyberspace is as fake as its promoters.”
Tersoo declared that the Elections Appeal Panels of political parties have no powers to dissolve or cancel an electoral process but may recommend at most. He told the people to watch out for more details on the forgery and falsification of the said document with obvious intention to deceive unsuspecting members of the public.