NDC Primary: Enugu guber aspirant, Ogenyi urges calm as officials fail to show up

A governorship aspirant in Enugu State, under the platform of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Hon Dozie Ogenyi has urged his supporters to remain calm after party members waited for several hours without election officials showing up.

MEDIA TODAY recalls that the NDC held its primary elections across the country on Friday.

However, in Enugu State where the party is factionalized, it appeared to be one of the worst cases, as party members waited endlessly without any official showing up.

Ogenyi, who was accompanied by a senatorial aspirant, Bishop Oscar Okwudili Ossai and other NDC chieftains in the state, moved round some of the venues in the local government areas, where he was received by a large gathering of party supporters.

While noting the non-arrival of election officials at any of the primary election venues despite the large turn-out of party supporters for the exercise, he urged the party members to remain calm as the National Leadership of the NDC would provide a clear direction.

Addressing his supporters in Nsukka, Igbo-Eze South, Uzo-Uwani and a few other local government areas he visited, he said: “Those being expected to come from Enugu to conduct the primaries have caused unnecessary delay.”

Our correspondent reports that the party supporters in Nsukka LGA, after waiting in vain for the arrival of election officials, formed long queues behind their preferred aspirants.