The All Progressives Congress (APC) will elect its governorship candidates on Friday as they begin the process that will conclude with the emergence of the party’s presidential candidate on June 1.
Delegates will pick the candidates in the 28 states where governorship elections will be held.
It will be five delegates per ward. There are 8,809 wards across the country.
Also, 2,322 delegates are to be elected tomorrow – three each from the 774 local government areas who will join the statutory delegates to elect the party’s presidential standard-bearer.
Thirty-seven panels in one for each of the 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) were inaugurated yesterday at the party’s national secretariat.
The panels, in addition to conducting the election of delegates, will also screen cleared aspirants for House of Assembly elections.
There will be no election in eight states in 2023 where the elections are off-season. These include Bayelsa, Edo, Ondo, Anambra, Kogi, Imo as well as Ekiti and Osun states where elections will take place next month and July.
The APC has cleared 145 governorship aspirants for the Friday primaries.
