Direct primaries fuel internal party conflicts – Dickson

National Leader of the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) and erstwhile Bayelsa State Governor, Seriake Dickson, has renewed his disapproval of Nigeria’s nonstop superior system, arguing that it is simply a large operator of interior enactment disputes and wide complaints crossed governmental parties.

Speaking during an Arise Television interview, Dickson said the inclusion of mandatory nonstop primaries successful the Electoral Act was, successful his view, a legislative mistake that stripped governmental parties of the flexibility to find their ain campaigner enactment processes.

He argued that governmental parties should person been allowed to take betwixt nonstop and indirect primaries, insisting that the imposition of a azygous exemplary has created avoidable tensions.

According to him, the erstwhile delegate strategy offered greater operation and control, reducing disputes and limiting the standard of contestation compared to the existent arrangement.

“We did not person this deluge of complaints nether the delegated system,” helium said, adding that reforms were intended to deepen ideology but had besides introduced important logistical and administrative challenges.

Dickson noted that nether the existent framework, electoral bodies specified arsenic INEC are required to coordinate extended ward-level processes, a task helium ...