APC crisis takes a new turn as party chieftain threatens to jail INEC chairman

A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has threatened to jail the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Mahmood Yakubu.

Vanguard reports that Emerhor has accused Yakubu of flouting a court order, directing the commission not to publish the names of candidates from other factions of the party other than his (Yakubu’s) own faction.

Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, November 14, Emerhor said his group approached the court and secured a court order stopping INEC from publishing the names of candidates for National Assembly, governorship and state Assembly positions.

Emerhor who won the senatorial seat for Delta Central in the primaries conducted by his own APC faction said he will jail the INEC chairman.

Meanwhile, TRACKNEWS.NG previously reported that President Muhammadu Buhari had directed APC’s national chairman, Adams Oshiomhole, to resolve the crisis between aggrieved members of the APC.

A source at the Presidential Villa said President Buhari is embarrassed and worried by the ongoing crisis in the APC.

The source claimed that the president instructed the national chairman to ensure that all the controversies surrounding the governorship and state assemblies’ primary elections “must be resolved this week.”