The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) says no political party
has the right to impose its processes on another.
The party was reacting to the passing of the electoral act
amendment bill by the national assembly.
The national assembly, earlier on
Tuesday, approved the conference committee report on the electoral act
amendment bill.
The electoral bill was passed by the lower chamber in July —
after the PDP caucus staged a walkout.
In the conference committee report, both chambers of the
national assembly approved that all political parties must use the direct
primary mode in picking candidates.
Some stakeholders, including governors, had rejected the
proposal while some agreed to it.
But in a statement by Kola Ologbondiyan, its national
publicity secretary, the PDP said other political parties have the right to
decide which form of primary they wish to adopt.
Ologbondiyan said the PDP was shocked over the passage of
harmonised electoral act amendment bill, which among other things, provides for
direct primaries for nomination of candidates for elections by political
parties.
“Our party holds that it is the inalienable right of each
political party, within the context of our constitutional democracy, to decide
its form of internal democratic practices,” he said.
“The PDP also believes that no political party should force
its own processes on any other political party as the direct primaries
amendment, a practice of the APC sought to achieve.”
The PDP said it will within the next 48 hours make its final decision in respect of the amendment known.
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