LibertyRep:
Forget that drama they're acting. They are all united in killing that bill.

If otherwise, let them dare veto the President.

slivertongue:
All hail rubber stamp nass

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The conduct of direct primaries across the 8,809 wards across the length and breadth of the country will lead to a significant spike in the cost of conducting primary elections by parties as well as increase in the cost of monitoring such elections by INEC who has to deploy monitors across these wards each time a party is to conduct direct primaries for the presidential, gubernatorial and legislative posts”, the President said amid other reasons.

festacman:
There is no doubt that NASS members who are pushing for direct primaries are doing so to protect their political interests against the interests of state governors who are opposing it. It is never about its practicality in terms of logistics, cost, etc.

Yes, direct party primary election is good for democracy but there is need for a detailed study of its bolt and nut to identify likely weakness and threats and ways to counter it. APC governorship direct party primary in Anambra State was a huge disappointment and a bad advert for the idea of direct primary. So, may be Osun State Governorship election should serve a kind of pilot scheme.

Why rush into something you know just little about?

Bomopn:
Awon oloriburuku rubber stamp national assembly

post=108691902:
Anything that will move out darling nation forward is all we want @.

Nigeria will succeed and be great in our lifetime.

God bless Nigeria and all good, sane and honest Nigerians.

Moferere:
Buhari blew the chance of leaving a good LEGACY by not signing that bill. He allowed himself to be misled by deluded hybrids flocking around him.

After his tenure, he will only be remembered for bandits, hoodlums, unknown gun men and the hunger he created in Nigeria.

Validated:
No need to spend billions on irrelevant processes. The biggest and stable democracies do not waste such a humungous amount on direct primaries that would end up creating confusion with fictitious results like that of Anambra APC.

Here are some reasons to jettison the idea of direct primaries:
i. It is based on an open ballot system. If the open ballot is acceptable at party primaries, why is it not acceptable in the election proper?

ii. Cost would be prohibitive and the process would be cumbersome. There are 774 LGAs, so for every LGA election, the electoral bodies at the state level would first conduct primaries for all political parties at the council and chairmanship level. Then INEC will conduct primaries for all state assembly candidates for all parties at state level, then conduct for NASS for all parties and governorship for all parties. This is absolute nonsense.

iii, Duplication of efforts, as parties primaries would amount to INEC conducting elections before elections.

iv. Resources needed would be too much to make any meaning. INEC does not have such resources

v. All political parties would now need to amend their constitutions to reflect the requirements of the electoral act, which is nonsense. Political parties are private "vehicles' for seeking political offices, if the electoral laws do not govern how their structures and organs are constituted, why govern how they pick their candidates?

vi. Multiplicity of membership, how do INEC and the parties control list of membership? Meaning a political party could influence candidates for the opposing party by proxy membership. That is one person could hold both APC as well as PDP membership. All a smart politician would do is to create proxy membership of the opposition and use his proxies to vote for a weak person in the opposition.

Please, Mr. President should ask NASS to delete the direct primaries insertion and sign a sustainable electoral law. The direct primaries' insertion is myopic and self-serving!

helinues:
So in Short na kangaroo delegates they are opting for.

So Nigeria politicians can't donate out of the money they would likely waste for the 2023 election.

How would the party members participate in the process that would produce who to represent them?

Yeyenatu

respect80:


So every other thing in the bill has to be rejected just because of this?
This administration never fails to demonstrate how clueless it is when it comes to matters of utmost importance.

post=108691902:
Anything that will move out darling nation forward is all we want @.

Nigeria will succeed and be great in our lifetime.

God bless Nigeria and all good, sane and honest Nigerians.

Agbegbaorogboye:

What do you know about other types of primaries?
The plan is working. Y'all talking about direct Vs indirect primaries while gains like electronic results transmission and card readers being finally legalised are ignored.
Pity

festacman:


The President cannot sign the bill in piecemeal. Both electronic clauses and Direct primary clauses are parts and parcel of the bill. Only NASS can make amendments. By the way, I don't electronic transmission is the reason Pres. Buhari gave for not signing.

Vddaz:
The most Useless national assembly in the history of this country

AbarIa:
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Buhari led administration is a disaster

backbone503 A very good point .post=108691928:
The aim of any political party is to by any means possible, grab/retain power. Just like PDP will be presenting a northern presidential candidate (to stand a better chance of winning), the Buhari led APC government has rejected the Electoral Bill (to improve its chances of retaining power).

APC is very uncomfortable with the Electronic Transmission clause in the Bill, hence, it smuggled in the Direct Primaries clause, so as to give Buhari a reason to reject the bill.

Very simple. Its all about power, not the masses or making Nigeria better.

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