2027: IPAC describes all political parties’ primaries as ‘charade’, blames Electoral Act

The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has described arsenic charade the precocious concluded superior elections held by assorted governmental parties up of the 2027 wide elections.

IPAC National Chairman, Yusuf Dantalle, stated this on Tuesday at Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s Second Quarterly Consultative Meeting with leaders of governmental parties successful Abuja.

Dantalle blamed the challenges that marred the superior elections connected the regularisation imposed by the Electoral Act 2026, which eliminated indirect primaries arsenic a valid mode of campaigner nomination.

According to him, the information workout which officially concluded connected Saturday, May 30, 2026, exposed important legal, administrative and operational challenges that merit urgent nationalist attention.

He added that the restrictive provisions of Section 84(2) of the Electoral Act, 2026, which constricted parties to either statement oregon nonstop primaries, efficaciously cornered governmental parties into processes that were neither genuinely antiauthoritarian nor practically workable.

The IPAC’s brag noted that successful galore instances, parties adopted the statement enactment contempt the beingness of aggregate aspirants who had duly purchased look of involvement and information forms.

“The workout was a charade. While immoderate aspirants accepted these arrangeme...