Ministers will comply with electoral act by resigning – APC spokesman

National Publicity Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Felix Morka says all government appointees seeking to contest in the 2023 general elections have been guided in line with the electoral act on when to resign.

Morka said this while fielding questions from journalists at the end of the National Working Committee (NWC) meeting of the APC on Wednesday.

He said that all the appointees would comply with the electoral act before the party’s primaries.

“Everyone involved intends to comply fully with the intendment and letters of the Electoral Act. The ministers are members of the party. And the party is the ruling party. Now, both the ministers, other appointees and the party’s leadership have excellent counsel and guidance. I am sure everyone involved intends to comply fully with the intendment and letters of the Electoral Act,” he said.

He also confirmed that the NWC has began discussions on the timetable for primaries into elective positions, but said that was not official yet.

“Today the NWC of the APC met and among other topics covered as you would probably expected, we discussed the programme for our party’s primaries looking at the schedule of activities for the forthcoming elections. I will not be able to give you a run down of the details of that schedule because that is still in discussion

“We are yet to conclude on a definite plan or timetable or schedule for our primaries.  But, I can confirm that we did have that conversation today. We began it today. But we have not concluded or made any decision on it.

“I can confirm that we have discussions. But we have not made any decision yet. I am not aware of anything that is trending because we have not put up any information into the public space about the schedule of our primaries,” he added.