Disparate primaries put APC on tenterhooks

The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) could be facing one of its worst crises since it was formed in 2014.

The leadership of the party at the national and state levels are singing discordant tunes on the mode to adopt in conducting primary elections to produce the party’s candidates for the forthcoming poll.

While President Muhammadu Buhari and the party’s national leadership are in support of direct primaries that would involve all registered members of the party in order to reduce the influence of money politics, and include all stakeholders, governors strongly favour indirect primaries so that they can retain their grip on party machinery.

But legal practitioners, who spoke to The Guardian on the issue stressed that whatever the APC does at the national level must comply with the provisions of the party’s constitution, while the law must also be respected to avoid an implosion.

The Guardian, September 9, 2018

 

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