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The campaign committee of Jimoh Ibrahim, senator representing Ondo south, says the lawmaker will accept any form of the primary election the All Progressives Congress (APC) may adopt to select its governorship candidate in the state.

The ruling party has reportedly adopted the direct primary to pick a governorship candidate on April 20.

NAN reports that Banji Okunomo, the campaign’s director of strategic communication, said Ibrahim has already made himself ready for whatever mode the party chooses.

Okunomo said the senator is qualified to become the party’s flag bearer.

“We are not unhappy with the direct primary mode of the party’s primary, because we are ready for any. We have prepared well for it,” he said.

“Senator Ibrahim has strategically prepared for a long, by reaching out to the grassroots, to familiarise himself with APC leaders and members, in the 203 wards in the 18 LGAs of the state.

“I have never seen Senator Ibrahim as an aspirant, but a candidate and an asset to APC, not a liability.

“This is because he has all the educational credentials, exposure, political goodwill, financial capacity, charisma and all that is required to fly the party’s flag.

“Every aspirant must emulate my principal (Jimoh Ibrahim) who is just doing his own campaign without engaging in any form of campaign of calumny against anyone.”

Okunomo added that Ibrahim has warned members of his team against conducting smear campaigns against any other aspirant.