{"id":916968,"date":"2022-01-17T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-17T08:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/17\/state-governors-not-against-direct-primaries-governor-sule\/"},"modified":"2022-01-17T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2022-01-17T08:56:11","slug":"state-governors-not-against-direct-primaries-governor-sule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/17\/state-governors-not-against-direct-primaries-governor-sule\/","title":{"rendered":"State Governors Not Against Direct Primaries \u2013 Governor Sule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_823702\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-823702\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-823702 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/Untitled-1-46-600x323.png\" alt=\"Electoral Bill: State Governors Not Against Direct Primaries \u2013 Governor Sule\" width=\"600\" height=\"323\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-823702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abdullahi Sule<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has expressed that state governors are not against the option of direct primaries for conducting elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a total misunderstanding that the governors are against direct primaries. The governors are definitely not against direct primaries. As a matter of fact, a lot of the states chose whether to do direct or indirect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He stated this during a Citizens\u2019 town hall on the Electoral bill on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Sule noted that the electoral bill is more than just the direct or indirect mode of primaries for political parties.<\/p>\n<div class=\"td-a-rec td-a-rec-id-content_inline  tdi_2_533 td_block_template_1\"><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"td-all-devices\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GiftCards-300x250-1.jpg\" alt=\"Gift Cards\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:\u00a02023: Time Running Out For New Electoral Bill, Says INEC<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He expressed that the APC Constitution provides three modes for conducting its primaries \u2013 consensus, direct and indirect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not that the state governors are against direct. All we said was that why don\u2019t you leave the options. The Electoral Act is far more than just direct or indirect. There are so many important things there, why are we boxing ourselves with either direct or indirect?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGive political parties the opportunity. By the time the opportunities are given, you will be shocked in the 2023 elections, a lot of the states will still do direct,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullahi Sule Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has expressed that state governors are not against the option of direct primaries for conducting elections. \u201cThere is a total misunderstanding that the governors are against direct primaries. The governors are definitely not against direct primaries. As a matter of fact, a lot of the states chose whether [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=916968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/916968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=916968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=916968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=916968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}