By Omoniyi Salaudeen

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South-South Coordinator of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Senator Roland Stephen Owie, yesterday, commended the National Assembly for the new amendments to the Electoral Act which recommended electronic voting as well as the transfer of the conduct of the Local Government elections to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
He gave this commendation in his keynote address at the official opening of the Cross River State Secretariat of the party and the inauguration of the Interim State Executive. The Senator, who expressed support for the amended electoral act, noted that no credible council election had been conducted by the State Independent Electoral Commission (SIEC) since the inception of the present democratic dispensation in 1999. He also threw his weight behind the proposal to grant full autonomy to the Local Government Councils in Nigeria.
Addressing the party faithful, Owie announced that ADP had adopted direct primary for selection of the party’s flag bearers in the coming elections. According to him, all registered party members would vote at their various polling units to elect aspirants of their choice for all positions from councillorship to presidential candidate.  “The practice of Chairmanship, Governorship and Presidential Candidates asking the party to submit three names among whom they will choose who to become the Vice Chairman, Deputy Governor and Vice President is against the spirit of party supremacy and your party (ADP) will not support it,” he added.
Ahead of the scheming for the 2019 presidential race, Senator Owie disclosed that the party had resolved to zone the position of president to the North.
While berating successive leaders for bad governance, he admonished prospective aspirants on the platform of ADP to put the fear of God in whatever they do.