The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on Tuesday said the party received 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.
In a statement by the outgoing National Publicity Secretary Kola Ologbondiyan, the main opposition party in the country said it was the inalienable right of each political party, within the context of the constitutional democracy, to decide its form of internal democratic practices including the processes of nominating its candidates for elections at any level.
The PDP said they also believed 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.
It added that “the party shall, within the next 48 hours, make its final decision in respect of this amendment known.”
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