Nkire, who warned members of the National Assembly against overriding the president’s veto on the Electoral Act Bill 2021, said it was wrong to force political parties to adopt direct primaries as sole option.
According to him, direct primary election system is not only expensive and cumbersome to actualise but it also subjects the political parties to excessive legislation and control. “It is wrong to force political parties to adopt direct primaries as the only method of choosing candidates for elections.“My rejection of compulsory direct primaries is not only because it is expensive and cumbersome to actualize but also subjects the political parties to excessive legislation and control.
“The legislative branch of government should be cautioned against the temptation of taking away the rights of political parties to choose their modus operandi in the course of carrying out their rightful duties. Direct primary should be a matter of choice and not compulsion. “No reasonable party would want to field a candidate it considered incapable of winning an election, no matter the force of law,” Nkire, also a former national chairman of the defunct Progressive People’s Alliance , said in a statement he sent to LEADERSHIP in Abuja.
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