Electoral Act Amendment: No Party Has Right To Impose Its Processes On Others – PDP Declares

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday declared that no political party has the right to impose its processes on another.

The PDP stated this while reacting to the news of the passage of the harmonized Electoral Act amendment bill, which among other things, provided for direct primaries for nomination of candidates for elections by political parties.

The party in a statement by its National Publicity Secretary, Mr Kola Ologbondiyan, insists that it is the inalienable right of each political party, within the context of the nation’s constitutional democracy, to decide its form of internal democratic practices including the processes of nominating its candidates for elections at any level.

It further 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 All Progressives Congress (APC), sought to achieve”.

The PDP said it shall, within the next 48 hours, make its final decision in respect of the amendment known.