The Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) has announced new measures it would adopt to aid transparency during its
primary election.
Uche Secondus, national chairman
of the party, said part of this would be a display of the presidential
aspirants’ photograph on ballot papers.
This is usually not the case, as
the papers only bear names of aspirants.
The main opposition party
currently has at least 12 aspirants seeking its ticket in the 2019 presidential
election.
Speaking when he received a team
from the European Union in Abuja on Wednesday, Secondus said the counting of
votes during the primary election would be done under the full view of the
aspirants.
“The ballot papers we intend to
use will have portraits of all the aspirants, and all the aspirants will be
invited to view and calculate all the numbers and everything under the view of
everyone before the election proper can start,” he said.
He added the party will soon
announce the members of the committee for its national convention “so that the
working committee will handover to this committee who will conduct the primary
election.”
“We believe that all the
presidential aspirants will have nominees into very key important committees,”
he said.
“The accreditation committee
where the delegates will line up and then be identified, they would have
nominees into that committee so that they are sure that no one is going to play
any game.”
Among the key aspirants in the
party seeking to unseat President Muhammadu Buhari come 2019 are Senate
President Bukola Saraki; former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; former Senate
President David Mark, Rabiu Kwankwaso, former governor of Kano state; and Aminu
Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto.
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