PDP Governors Rejects Plan To Foist Direct Primaries On All Political Parties

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Ayuba Mafi

Nigerian Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has condemned any attempt to foist a method of conducting primary election called Direct primaries on All political parties in the country.

 

The Governors who rejected the plan in a Communique issued to journalists in Bauchi at the end of their meeting on Monday said that the method which is coming through the Electoral Amendment bill is prone to massive rigging.

 

The Communique cited an instance where President Buhari scored about 15 million votes in the 2018 APC Direct Primaries only to score 15 million votes from the entire country in the 2019 General Election.

 

The Governors advised that political parties should be allowed to decide whether to use the direct or indirect method of conducting primaries as part of internal democracy in political parties.

 

The PDP Governors accused President Muhammadu Buhari and his party, the All Progressives Congress APC of turning the presidential villa into an offshoot of the APC.

 

The Governors condemned the use of underhand tactics to arm-twist some PDP Governors and other stakeholders to join the APC.

 

According to them, APC as a political party “has wrecked Nigeria’s economy, turned Nigeria into a killing field and has nothing to offer Nigerians but misery and bad governance”.

 

“The Governors condemned Mr. President and APC for turning the Presidential Villa, that belongs to all Nigerians, into the new APC headquarters, where coerced PDP members are being paraded at intervals”, parts of the Communique reads.

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