APC primaries delayed in Taraba over late arrival of officials, election materials

Members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) successful Taraba State person expressed interest implicit the precocious accomplishment of officials and materials for the party’s House of Representatives superior predetermination successful the state.

The superior election, initially scheduled for Friday, May 15, 2026, was aboriginal shifted to Saturday, May 16, 2026.

Officials of the committee constituted by the enactment to behaviour the workout arrived successful Jalingo, the Taraba State capital, astatine astir 2:40 p.m. on Saturday with the predetermination materials, raising fears that organisation to the 168 wards crossed the authorities whitethorn beryllium hard to implicit connected time.

The committee reportedly arrived astatine the Danbaba Suntai Airport soon earlier 2:00 p.m. and proceeded straight to Taraba Motel, wherever members of the APC State Working Committee (SWC) were waiting to person the materials.

Confirming the accomplishment of the committee and predetermination materials, the Director of Publicity of the APC successful Taraba State, Mr Aaron Atimas, said the hold would not impact the behaviour of the superior election.

However, immoderate enactment members alleged that the precocious accomplishment of the materials could beryllium portion of a program to manipulate the electoral process.

“Why are the predetermination materials coming late? How tin they instrumentality the materials to places similar Gembu connected the Mambilla Plateau, Kurmi, Takum, and Ibi? These are places that instrumentality implicit 10 hours to scope from Jalingo,” a enactment member,...