2027: Reintroduce indirect primaries -APGA tells INEC

The National Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Sylvester Ezeokenwa, has asked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to reintroduce the indirect mode of primaries.

Ezeokenwa made this telephone connected Tuesday connected Channels Television’s Politics Today.

He was speaking connected the electoral model arsenic the 2027 wide elections get closer.

“It’s not arsenic if you’re going to person an indirect mode of electing a campaigner astatine an election. And truthful for the information that INEC tin really behaviour an predetermination during COVID-19 era, governmental parties tin arsenic behaviour nonstop primaries.

“And truthful for me, that contented does not arise. But the contented that arises is the sentiment of IPAC. The sentiment of IPAC is that the presumption of the National Assembly connected the mode of primaries much oregon little tries to stifle the maturation of smaller governmental parties who whitethorn not person the logistics wherewithal to signifier nonstop primaries astatine the past scale.

“So, erstwhile you instrumentality into information the information of thing similar the statesmanlike campaigner astatine an predetermination wherever you volition beryllium conducting primaries successful implicit 8800 Wards successful the full country, you look astatine each these issues.

“For me, with the logistics associated with the behaviour of nonstop primaries, that’s the large challenge, and that is the large crushed IPAC is calling connected the National Ass...