Amotolongbo:
Surely, I agree with you on that.

If you go back to see where I mentioned Buhari and other APC governors who were nominated based on direct primary, it was on the second point where you said “it will increase productivity”.
Nigeria’s problem is so complex that on can’t generalise solution.

All the same, your opinions and suggestions are good and if we all are ready to make the nation great, the country shall be great

Yeah it will increase productivity If direct primary is added and signed permanently into law.

For now it is just a random process that is implemented based on random decisions which is why they may choose to use it at a time and then use indirect when they feel. It is necessary.

Amotolongbo:
Why are you struggling to make sense young man?
A low IQ person still has a better understanding than you.
Nobody is arguing if Buhari was a consensus candidate or not with you.
Did direct primary election hold for the APC presidential candidate or not.

You believe in Law and not what Garba Sheu, tell us which Nigerian law stipulated a consensus candidacy for APC presidential candidate.

Na wa for these small small children o

Small children wey get sense pass old mama, no be juju be dat. where you bn dey when una mate dey go school early?.

I wouldn't know the basis for your arguments if you have next to zero understanding about a subject matter. The electoral act already recognizes the process of electing party's candidates which could either be direct, indirect or consensus. Inec & the party would have to communicate the process and an inec official would be present at the venue to validate the process.
APC had their candidates in the person of Buhari. Every party member unanimously endorsed him as the party flagbearer with no opposition. What does that tell you if you had a brain to comprehend.

However, in a party primaries, there shall be two or more contesting aspirants on the ballot. A direct or indirect primaries could as well end up being a consensus if all contestants agreed to adopt a single candidate at the last minute.



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EraseTheDot:

Small children wey get sense pass old mama, no be juju be dat. where you dey when una mate dey go school early?.

I don't know the basis for your arguments if you have next to zero understanding about a subject matter. The electoral act already recognizes the process of electing party's candidates which could either be direct, indirect or consensus. Inec & the party would have to communicate the process and an inec official would be present at the venue to validate the process. It's not a new thing, is it?
APC had their candidates in the person of Buhari. Every party member unanimously endorsed him as the party flagbearer with no opposition. What does that tell you if you had a brain to comprehend.

However, in a party primaries, there shall be two or more contesting aspirants on the ballot. A direct or indirect primaries could as well end up being a consensus if all contestants agreed to adopt a single candidate at the last minute.



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The problem here isn’t you, the problem is Nairaland which brings pigeon and fowl together in one cage.
Well, it is also good to engage foolish people so as to appreciate wisdom.
Continue serenading me with your ignorance and stupidity.

Below are the results of the APC direct primary election for the presidential election.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/apc-presidential-primary-buhari-gets-2-9m-votes-in-kano-state/amp/
https://dailytrust.com/results-from-apc-presidential-primaries
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/apc-presidential-primary-buhari-wins-in-katsina/%3famp

The onus lies on you to prove the results were not real.

Amotolongbo:
The problem here isn’t you, the problem is Nairaland which brings pigeon and fowl together in one cage.
Well, it is also good to engage foolish people so as to appreciate wisdom.
Continue serenading me with your ignorance and stupidity.

Below are the results of the APC direct primary election for the presidential election.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanguardngr.com/2018/09/apc-presidential-primary-buhari-gets-2-9m-votes-in-kano-state/amp/
https://dailytrust.com/results-from-apc-presidential-primaries
https://www.google.com/amp/s/punchng.com/apc-presidential-primary-buhari-wins-in-katsina/%3famp

The onus lies on you to prove the results were not real.

Listen up and open your brain to enlightenment. If you're not informed, you'd be deformed. My cute little dog is not as hardened to as you are. You're proving to be less intelligent than a dog, obtuse, shallow and above all, unamenable.
You provided a link of direct primaries, kudos, at least, you go school small. But here in your understanding comes in limited capacity. After states' direct primaries, the National Convention is the highest party structure to adopt a party candidate. Which was why I earlier pointed you to the fact that the party "ratified" the candidacy of Buhari.
It was at the National Convention of APC that Buhari was adopted as the party's consensus candidate, which was then forwarded to inec for validation.
Sometimes when you argue, do not allow your fingers get anxiously faster than your brain. Just an advice that works.


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Amotolongbo:
[s]This one is just one biased party follower[/s]

Trash


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[s]

EraseTheDot:

Listen up and open your brain to enlightenment. If you're not informed, you'd be deformed. My cute little dog is not as hardened to as you are. You're proving to be less intelligent than a dog, obtuse, shallow and above all, unamenable.
You provided a link of direct primaries, kudos, at least, you go school small. But here in your understanding comes in limited capacity. After states' direct primaries, the National Convention is the highest party structure to adopt a party candidate. Which was why I earlier pointed you to the fact that the party "ratified" the candidacy of Buhari.
It was at the National Convention of APC that Buhari was adopted as the party's consensus candidate, which was then forwarded to inec for validation.
Sometimes when you argue, do not allow your fingers get anxiously faster than your brain. Just an advice that works.


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[/s]still gibberish as usual.

Why is intelligence so alien to you?

Prove that the direct primary election didn’t take place or STFU

Amotolongbo:
[s][/s]still gibberish as usual.

Why is intelligence so alien to you?

Prove that the direct primary election didn’t take place or STFU

I now know why you rush to occupy FTC on the FP. You know quite well that FTC usually makes dumb people popular. Dumbassry has become an habit that you no longer can hide it.
Having shown you that the National Convention adopted a consensus agreement on Buhari's ticket, yet you floundering like a fat drunk.
Is there any direct primaries at the national convention?. Maybe you'd show me after the dose of mkpurummiri is cleared off your light brain.


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Lalasticlala I believe this makes sense.

Happy Sunday.

Mention countries that practice compulsory direct primary in the world?

The largest democracies in the world; India and USA don't because it has huge challenges.

Direct primaries indeed.

The process will be rubbished just like PDP did in this video


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7exIeWOYt4

Like the one that brought in Andy uba right?

Direct primaries will stop godfather's agreed, but party members will vote for the person with more money

Okay

Toks2008:
WHAT IS DIRECT PRIMARY?

In a direct primary election, registered members of the party just vote for who they want to be the flag-bearer of their party. Unlike with the indirect primaries, no delegates are involved, party members choose their representatives through polls like they would in a general election.

This is currently added to the electoral bill as amended and with this type of primaries, Many people in a party across the nation will vote who they want and not leave it to some corrupt delegates that can be easily bribed or manipulated.

Unfortunately, President Muhamadu Buhari has refused to assent to the bill just because of this and it is now left for the 9th National assembly to either dance to the tune of the president and remove it or veto his non assent and pass the bill into law.

So let's see some of the positive effects of direct primaries in Nigeria Democratic process.

1.it will remove Godfatherism in its entirety as well as prevent recycling of redundant and corrupt politicians.

2. It will give rise to productivity of the elected people cos they know that the same people who voted for them are the same people who will decide if they should run again and not some greedy corrupt ward chairmen or party leaders hence their loyalty will be towards the electorates and not to party leaders.

3. It will make the main election process a jamboree and less complicated as the Direct primary would have given a clear direction of the possible outcome of the general election.

4. Though some quarters claim that it is costly but I believe that it is better to have a strong democracy that is "costly".

5. It will save Nigerians from having to pick from many wrong options imposed on us by the so-called "owners of Nigeria" or Clueless self centered and corrupt power brokers.

6.Ultimately strengthen our Democracy as direct primaries will be less prone to corruption or money inducement as it will be easier to bribe few delegates than bribing the entire electorates all over the country.

It is time for Nigerians to urge the National assembly to do the right thing by signing the bill into law thereby saving our crumbling democracy.

We can not be doing things the same way and expect a different result... It's high time we changed the way we do things so that we can build a nation of our dreams.

OUR ROLE

It is not certain if it will be an open direct primary(Where registered voters can vote to choose a representative for any party without having to register into any particular party but can only vote once) or a closed direct primary (Where only registered member of a particular party can vote) but we must be proactive by getting our PVCs and if possible, join a party of our choice and be part of the process to change Nigeria.

Direct primaries is the heaviest scam in Nigeria APC tried and we know the result. Andy Uba the APC candidate scored 230K plus votes to emerge the party candidate but couldn't score up to 50k votes in the general elections. Even a child knows that the APC direct primaries was cooked and doctored to satisfy one candidate. The same thing in FCT in 2019 primaries. One famous politician score 1.4 million votes in a Local Government in Abuja, a place that has less than 100K registered voters.

Please, OP stop promoting what you don't know!

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They gave us BVN, NIN yet that's not enough for us to vote the candidates of our own choice. But they can charge vat in those accounts .

Now to do direct primaries where we can just join one party and vote the candidates of our choice. They are still interested in imposition and Godfatherism which has killed us thus far

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And it will be abused like what happened in APC Anambra state primary where a candidate ascribed himself an imaginary 230,000 votes cos the number of the party members are assumed to be large which can not be verified but with delegates in indirect primary ,the number is capped and you cannot just write any figure you want .

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AbujaCitiBlog:

Direct primaries is the heaviest scam in Nigeria APC tried and we know the result. Andy Uba the APC candidate scored 230K plus votes to emerge the party candidate but couldn't score up to 50k votes in the general elections. Even a child knows that the APC direct primaries was cooked and doctored to satisfy one candidate. The same thing in FCT in 2019 primaries. One famous politician score 1.4 million votes in a Local Government in Abuja, a place that has less than 100K registered voters.

Please, OP stop promoting what you don't know!

Relax, cos electronic transmission of results will make it difficult for any form of manipulations.

Toks2008:
WHAT IS DIRECT PRIMARY?

In a direct primary election, registered members of the party just vote for who they want to be the flag-bearer of their party. Unlike with the indirect primaries, no delegates are involved, party members choose their representatives through polls like they would in a general election.

This is currently added to the electoral bill as amended and with this type of primaries, Many people in a party across the nation will vote who they want and not leave it to some corrupt delegates that can be easily bribed or manipulated.

Unfortunately, President Muhamadu Buhari has refused to assent to the bill just because of this and it is now left for the 9th National assembly to either dance to the tune of the president and remove it or veto his non assent and pass the bill into law.

So let's see some of the positive effects of direct primaries in Nigeria Democratic process.

1.it will remove Godfatherism in its entirety as well as prevent recycling of redundant and corrupt politicians.

2. It will give rise to productivity of the elected people cos they know that the same people who voted for them are the same people who will decide if they should run again and not some greedy corrupt ward chairmen or party leaders hence their loyalty will be towards the electorates and not to party leaders.

3. It will make the main election process a jamboree and less complicated as the Direct primary would have given a clear direction of the possible outcome of the general election.

4. Though some quarters claim that it is costly but I believe that it is better to have a strong democracy that is "costly".

5. It will save Nigerians from having to pick from many wrong options imposed on us by the so-called "owners of Nigeria" or Clueless self centered and corrupt power brokers.

6.Ultimately strengthen our Democracy as direct primaries will be less prone to corruption or money inducement as it will be easier to bribe few delegates than bribing the entire electorates all over the country.

It is time for Nigerians to urge the National assembly to do the right thing by signing the bill into law thereby saving our crumbling democracy.

We can not be doing things the same way and expect a different result... It's high time we changed the way we do things so that we can build a nation of our dreams.

OUR ROLE

It is not certain if it will be an open direct primary(Where registered voters can vote to choose a representative for any party without having to register into any particular party but can only vote once) or a closed direct primary (Where only registered member of a particular party can vote) but we must be proactive by getting our PVCs and if possible, join a party of our choice and be part of the process to change Nigeria.

Ur opinion is trash and shitty, am sorry for beimg blunt.
Direct primaries won't and can't stop godfatherism, if it was to stop godfatherism ambode wouldnt have lost his primary election to some unknown sanwo olu.

No matter how we paint direct over indirect, this is Nigeria where anything and everything goes. The only advantage it has over indirect is, the electorates will be quick to benefit from electoral funds rather than wait till election day when its constitutional for votes buying.
Thugs will be paramount also in this phase just to scuttle some candidate's chance of winning.

WHAT OF THE DISADVANTAGES?

Toks2008:
WHAT IS DIRECT PRIMARY?

In a direct primary election, registered members of the party just vote for who they want to be the flag-bearer of their party. Unlike with the indirect primaries, no delegates are involved, party members choose their representatives through polls like they would in a general election.

This is currently added to the electoral bill as amended and with this type of primaries, Many people in a party across the nation will vote who they want and not leave it to some corrupt delegates that can be easily bribed or manipulated.

Unfortunately, President Muhamadu Buhari has refused to assent to the bill just because of this and it is now left for the 9th National assembly to either dance to the tune of the president and remove it or veto his non assent and pass the bill into law.

So let's see some of the positive effects of direct primaries in Nigeria Democratic process.

1.it will remove Godfatherism in its entirety as well as prevent recycling of redundant and corrupt politicians.

2. It will give rise to productivity of the elected people cos they know that the same people who voted for them are the same people who will decide if they should run again and not some greedy corrupt ward chairmen or party leaders hence their loyalty will be towards the electorates and not to party leaders.

3. It will make the main election process a jamboree and less complicated as the Direct primary would have given a clear direction of the possible outcome of the general election.

4. Though some quarters claim that it is costly but I believe that it is better to have a strong democracy that is "costly".

5. It will save Nigerians from having to pick from many wrong options imposed on us by the so-called "owners of Nigeria" or Clueless self centered and corrupt power brokers.

6.Ultimately strengthen our Democracy as direct primaries will be less prone to corruption or money inducement as it will be easier to bribe few delegates than bribing the entire electorates all over the country.

It is time for Nigerians to urge the National assembly to do the right thing by signing the bill into law thereby saving our crumbling democracy.

We can not be doing things the same way and expect a different result... It's high time we changed the way we do things so that we can build a nation of our dreams.

OUR ROLE

It is not certain if it will be an open direct primary(Where registered voters can vote to choose a representative for any party without having to register into any particular party but can only vote once) or a closed direct primary (Where only registered member of a particular party can vote) but we must be proactive by getting our PVCs and if possible, join a party of our choice and be part of the process to change Nigeria.

PHIPEX:
Mention countries that practice compulsory direct primary in the world?

The largest democracies in the world; India and USA don't because it has huge challenges.

Please can you expantiate more by highlighting some of the big issues direct election has...

ba2remagaji:
WHAT OF THE DISADVANTAGES?

Cost but I prefer we have a costly process that is more credible.

Israeljones:

Please can you expantiate more by highlighting some of the big issues direct election has...

1. If you make it compulsory the political parties must change their own constitutions to reflect it. This will take over a year to happen and undermine 2023 election
2. It has never stopped electoral fraud, eg Anambra APC primary election
3. INEC does not have the fund to conduct such across the country for over 80political parties
4. The parties don't have a reliable register of members, every tom dick and harry can still claim membership and vote
5. Anyone with enough money power can still bribe his way through and win. The biggest money power wins.
6. The countries we are emulating are yet to make it compulsory because they know the challenges involved.

yaki84:

Ur opinion is trash and shitty, am sorry for beimg blunt.
Direct primaries won't and can't stop godfatherism, if it was to stop godfatherism ambode wouldnt have lost his primary election to some unknown sanwo olu.

No matter how we paint direct over indirect, this is Nigeria where anything and everything goes. The only advantage it has over indirect is, the electorates will be quick to benefit from electoral funds rather than wait till election day when its constitutional for votes buying.
Thugs will be paramount also in this phase just to scuttle some candidate's chance of winning.

If you went through the history of the comments you will understand better.

Go back and read.

PHIPEX:


1. If you make it compulsory the political parties must change their own constitutions to reflect it. This will take over a year to happen and undermine 2023 election
2. It has never stopped electoral fraud, eg Anambra APC primary election
3. INEC does not have the fund to conduct such across the country for over 80political parties
4. The parties don't have a reliable register of members, every tom dick and harry can still claim membership and vote
5. Anyone with enough money power can still bribe his way through and win.
6. The countries we are emulating are yet to make it compulsory because they know the challenges involved.

Did you really comprehend?

Open Direct Primaries is not as difficult as you presented it. You just illustrated closed Direct primary.

Toks2008:


Cost but I prefer we have a costly process that is more credible.

This is the only big advantage being mention.... Is cost of election not already high..?
I just hope someone can tutors us more on its disadvantages

Israeljones:

This is the only big advantage being mention.... Is cost of election not already high..?
I just hope someone can tutors us more on its disadvantages

That was the reason Buhari even gave.

Toks2008:
WHAT IS DIRECT PRIMARY?

In a direct primary election, registered members of the party just vote for who they want to be the flag-bearer of their party. Unlike with the indirect primaries, no delegates are involved, party members choose their representatives through polls like they would in a general election.

This is currently added to the electoral bill as amended and with this type of primaries, Many people in a party across the nation will vote who they want and not leave it to some corrupt delegates that can be easily bribed or manipulated.

Unfortunately, President Muhamadu Buhari has refused to assent to the bill just because of this and it is now left for the 9th National assembly to either dance to the tune of the president and remove it or veto his non assent and pass the bill into law.

Did you see the YIAGA townhall meeting on NTA this evening?

Jega said political parties do not have a register with which INEC can conduct direct primaries.

There is also the issue of time as we are roughly 1 year away from election.

Direct primary has to removed for now to allow the rest of the bill scale through, hopefully the next dispensation will make direct primary a thing.