A group of observers who monitored the governorship primary election of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Osun State, have lauded the option and recommended it for other political parties in the country.
Coalition of Civil Societies in Osun state in collaboration with Comrade Olaoni Centre for Social Research made the recommendation at a press conference in Osogbo, on Saturday.
The forum which was jointly addressed by Messrs Wale Adebisi, Amitolu Shittu and Waheed Lawal noted that the direct primary reduced manipulations and inducements of voters with money as experienced in the last APC primary.
“From all variables and indices available to us on the field, the direct primary is actually the best so as to encourage internal, all inclusive democracy, because every party member is involved.
“It eliminates the emerging trend where aspirants camped delegates and bribe each with huge amount of money. It also eliminates manipulation to a large extent.
“We hereby encourage every other political party to embrace this process of direct party primary so as to improve the internal democracy of the party politics which will gradually reduce the issue of financial inducement.
The civil society organisations said direct primary process truly attests to the fact that democracy is truly for the people.
It stressed that regardless of the shortcomings and drawbacks observed during the exercise, the process remains the best because it is transparent, free and fair nature.
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