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1. The big party gets bigger, the small parties die off. Two parties will survive, PDP and APC. But having more states means having more members and that's road to one party state.
2. Money bags will have their way as in indirect primaries but money will reach grassroots, no matter how small.
3. The manipulation will be worse than indirect primaries because it's those with AUTHENTIC register that will determine the winner.
4. Multiple Party membership will be the order of the day. This will inflate the membership registers of these parties and will conflict with INEC voters register. E.g. where INEC register has Lagos as 6,000,000 voters. APC members could be 4,000,000 while PDP could be 2,000,000. So other small parties could amount to 1,500,000. This is 7,500,000. Mind you, every party member has PVC.
No be juju be that?

So it's a noble political move because it engenders political inclusion but ... you see black man? We can destroy heaven if given chance.

JaroMan:
1. The big party gets bigger, the small parties die off. Two parties will survive, PDP and APC. But having more states means having more members and that's road to one party state.
2. Money bags will have their way as in indirect primaries but money will reach grassroots, no matter how small.
3. The manipulation will be worse than indirect primaries because it's those with AUTHENTIC register that will determine the winner.
4. Multiple Party membership will be the order of the day. This will inflate the membership registers of these parties and will conflict with INEC voters register. E.g. where INEC register has Lagos as 6,000,000 voters. APC members could be 4,000,000 while PDP could be 2,000,000. So other small parties could amount to 1,500,000. This is 7,500,000. Mind you, every party member has PVC.
No be juju be that?

So it's a noble political move because it engenders political inclusion but ... you see black man? We can destroy heaven if given chance.

No matter what, direct primary will always be a better option, during the last anambra election,I believed maduka and uba outspend soludo and still lost, so money cannot buy everyone especially when it comes to direct primary, how many people u wan bribe, now compare that ro few delegates they will camp in hotel...

tamdun:
No matter what, direct primary will always be a better option, during the last anambra election,I believed maduka and uba outspend soludo and still lost, so money cannot buy everyone especially when it comes to direct primary, how many people u wan bribe, now compare that ro few delegates they will camp in hotel...

All a moneybag needs to do is to spend money the same principal officers who control these members of the party. He will obviously spend more but he will get the ticket. Is it not the same people that will print membership card and number them?
They can do that overnight and give to people they like and the rest is history.
Guy I'm a party man and have been involved in these things. Manipulation will be worse than indirect

The party members should be able to have a say about who to represent them.

In Direct Primary, even if you have the money to spend but don't have time to mingle with the party members that would vote, your money might be useless.

In Direct Primary, candidates spend less to the party members compared to indirect primary that would only be delegates. One delegate can receive the money that could have been shared to 100 party members.

The politicians who do not have good record at their backyards are the one afraid of direct primary.