The Speaker of the House of
Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara has adduced reason President Muhammadu
Buhari and other persons elected into executive positions like governors should
not be seen as leaders of their parties at the national or state level.
Speaking on Friday while
receiving a delegation from the International Republican Institute, IRI, led by
its president, Daniel Twinning, he argued that the practice of calling public
officials elected into executive positions leaders of their parties prevents
political parties from being truly independent.
Dogara harped on the need to
strengthen political parties, adding that recent development in South Africa
demonstrated that political parties could be independent.
According to him, “there is one
problem that we must address in this country and that is that elected
officials, especially those in the Executive, are always regarded as leaders of
the political party.
“That is where we have a very
serious problem in this country and if an elected Executive is the leader of
the political party, the situation you find on ground is that every political
actor within the entire party architecture must pander to the whims and
caprices of that elected official.”
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