It was a shocking drama earlier today when the director general of the campaign organization of Senator Magnus Abe, Worgu Boms declared on national television that the parallel primary held by his group in Port Harcourt was illegal.

He also disclosed that he did not participate in the process and was not aware of any supervisory action by either the national leadership of his party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) or the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

Boms was the erstwhile Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice during the administration of the Rotimi Amaechi, the current minister of Transportation.

“I didn’t go out to vote for Magnus Abe. Yes. I didn’t vote for him. Whether there were people sent by APC national to conduct the primary or whether INEC officials were there to monitor the process, I cannot say,” he said while appearing on Channels Television programme, Sunrise Daily today.

A former aide to the immediate past State Chairman of the APC, Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has hailed Boms “for his boldness during the Channels TV programme where he asserted the illegality of Abe’s parallel primaries by refusing to vote for Abe, knowing very well that the exercise was a sham, charade and exercise in futility”.

Abe represents Rivers South East senatorial district in the Senate and has been having a running battle with Amaechi, under whom he served as Secretary to Government while the latter was governor of Rivers State.

He recently set up a parallel secretariat of the APC in Port Harcourt with a former deputy state chairman, Peter Odike as chairman. In the past weeks, he had been agitating for direct primaries to be held in the state.

But the National Working Committee of the party led by Adams Oshiomhole had approved indirect primary after the expanded state executive of the party unanimously opted for indirect primary.

Abe and his supporters went ahead to hold direct primary at his parallel secretariat where he was declared the winner, though he was the sole contestant.

With Worgu Boms’ statement today it becomes clear that the primary did meet the basic requirements of a political party primary as neither the national leadership of the party on INEC supervised the process or sanctioned it.

Moreso, political pundits surmise that the development underscores a profound lack of faith in the process by the key players in Abe political camp. One asked, “how can the director general of a campaign organization not participate in the process or know what transpired there?”