{"id":913834,"date":"2022-01-06T07:11:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/news\/2022\/01\/06\/its-undemocratic-to-insist-on-direct-primaries-buhari-tells-nass\/"},"modified":"2022-01-06T07:11:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T07:11:54","slug":"its-undemocratic-to-insist-on-direct-primaries-buhari-tells-nass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/06\/its-undemocratic-to-insist-on-direct-primaries-buhari-tells-nass\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Undemocratic To Insist On Direct Primaries, Buhari Tells NASS"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The national assembly\u2019s insistence on direct primaries, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, is undemocratic.<\/p>\n

In November, the national assembly forwarded the electoral act amendment bill to Buhari for his signature.<\/p>\n

As part of the revisions offered by the national assembly, the law includes mandatory direct primaries for political parties and electronic transmission of election results.<\/p>\n

Buhari, on the other hand, had opposed the bill, claiming that it would expose the electoral system to lawsuit and that adopting direct primary \u201cviolates the spirit of democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also Read:\u00a0Electoral Bill: National Assembly\u2019ll Remove Direct Primary Clause, Says Gbajabiamila<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview with Channels Television on Wednesday, President Buhari said Nigerians should be given options and allowed to choose what they want.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. I am not going to support it. Personally, I don\u2019t support direct primaries because I want people to be given a choice. You can\u2019t give them one option and think you are giving them democracy. Let\u2019s have the three options \u2014 direct, indirect, and consensus,\u201d Buhari said.<\/p>\n

Asked if he would still sign the electoral bill if the national assembly removes the clause he doesn\u2019t agree with, he replied: \u201cI don\u2019t think I told them what I don\u2019t like. What I said was there should be options. We must not insist that it has to be direct. Yes, I will sign the bill. You can\u2019t dictate to people and say you are doing democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buhari The national assembly\u2019s insistence on direct primaries, according to President Muhammadu Buhari, is undemocratic. In November, the national assembly forwarded the electoral act amendment bill to Buhari for his signature. As part of the revisions offered by the national assembly, the law includes mandatory direct primaries for political parties and electronic transmission of election […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-913834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=913834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}