A request has been made to the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ), and the National Assembly to reconsider the portion of the Electoral Act that was just passed.
The Organization for Global Youths Peace Empowerment and Development Initiative, which issued the call, encouraged Nigerian political parties to abandon the technique of indirect primary elections that created delegates in order to assure the emergence of qualified candidates.
According to the non-partisan group’s National Coordinator, Japhet Omene, who stated this during its voter enlightenment campaign, delegates make the emergence of quality candidates difficult.
He said, ”The usage of delegates during party primaries is undemocratic and unsuitable for Nigeria’s development as unpopular candidates always emerge at the end of the election. They emerge due to the corruption that always mar the exercise.
“The just concluded party primaries in the country is a justification. We all saw that almost all the candidates who won primaries spent millions of Naira to bribe delegates.
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“It is pathetic to see candidates with questionable records and discrepancies in their certificates, emerge as party flag bearers when there were other aspirants who were better suited for the positions being contested for.
“We can’t continue with this system as a nation. Therefore, if Nigeria must change for good, delegates can’t be collecting bribes to produce candidates at the expense of millions of Nigerians who are clamouring for real change.”
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