OSHIOMHOLE, ON COLLISION COURSE

APC state chairmen, Oshiomhole on collision course.

Opponents of the direct primary method announced by the National Working Committee of the All Progressives Congress have started mobilising state chairmen and other stakeholders to resist moves to foist the method on the states.

Towards this end, some party stakeholders including state APC chairmen and some members of the NWC converged on the Barcelona Hotel, Abuja, on Sunday, to fashion out the best way to confront the issue.

The stakeholders, who held their meeting in secret, earlier planned to meet at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja, but quickly dispersed and regrouped at the Barcelona Hotel when their initial location leaked to the party hierarchy hours before the scheduled meeting.

The party’s National Working Committee had in a statement signed by the acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, earlier in the day, said the attention of the party leadership was drawn to “the illegal” meeting.