Need to stop inducement of party delegates

We wish to reiterate and reinforce the stance on emerging and unfolding political events in Nigeria from a non-partisan prism. Our leaders should stop paying lip service to the prescriptions on youth involvement and participation in politics  by initiating pragmatic frameworks and activities that will encourage and incentivise the youths to politics. Hence, the need […]

We wish to reiterate and reinforce the stance on emerging and unfolding political events in Nigeria from a non-partisan prism.

Our leaders should stop paying lip service to the prescriptions on youth involvement and participation in politics  by initiating pragmatic frameworks and activities that will encourage and incentivise the youths to politics.

Hence, the need to demonetise the methods of delegate selection or nomination by the adoption of stringent guidelines that emphasise the strength of character, experience and leadership qualities of candidates to inform the choice of delegate in choosing flag bearers.

The APC, this coming week, can therefore engender itself among Nigerians through their presidential primary by conducting the primaries devoid of monetary inducements and the characterising of an eventual winner as the highest bidder in the process.

The APC has a choice of walking away from the inglorious path and show of shame by adopting or voting a candidate whose persona and public records are directly at variance with the choice of others through the alleged monetised process.

The APC will endear itself to Nigerians, heartily and boldly adjudge itself as truly progressive as the appellation, which it claims, if it elects to do this.

However, if it fails to seize the moment or neglects to react to the recent primary election debacle and the reputation the opposition has infamously earned by doing something different, Nigerians may continue in the erroneous classification that all the parties are only different between six and half dozen.

Nigerians are admonished to sustain the momentum and the wave of peaceful process and eschew any motivation or provocation to embrace violence in the remaining period of the election cycle.

 

Ibe Aniemeke Lawson, National Coordinator, Legacy Transformation Initiative