The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has faulted the adoption of direct primaries for the nomination of candidates by political parties for election.
The National Assembly had recommended direct primary for political parties in the amended 2010 Electoral Act, passed on Tuesday by both Chambers of the Assembly.
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In a statement issued on Tuesday night by the spokesman of the PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, the Party held that it is the inalienable right of each political party, “within the context of our constitutional democracy, to decide its form of internal democratic practices including the processes of nominating its candidates for elections at any level.”
According to the PDP, “no political party should force its own processes on any other political party as the direct primaries amendment, a practice of the All Progressives Congress (APC), sought to achieve.”
The Party said, the PDP shall, within the next 48 hours, make its final decision known on the amended Electoral Act in relation to the issue of Party primaries.
