{"id":88306,"date":"2021-11-10T00:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T23:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=88306"},"modified":"2021-11-10T00:01:35","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T23:01:35","slug":"electoral-act-amendment-pdp-rejects-direct-primary-option","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/electoral-act-amendment-pdp-rejects-direct-primary-option\/","title":{"rendered":"Electoral Act Amendment: PDP rejects direct primary option"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230; Says No Party Has Right To Impose Its Processes on Another<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has rejected the passage of the harmonized electoral act amendment bill, which among other things, provided for direct primaries for nomination of candidates for elections by political parties.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party said it is the inalienable right of each political party, within the context of the constitutional democracy, to decide its form of internal democratic practices including the processes of nominating its candidates for elections at any level.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">In a statement by the National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, PDP said, &#8220;it believes that no political party should force its own processes on any other political party as the direct primaries amendment, a practice of the All Progressives Congress (APC), sought to achieve.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Having stated this, the PDP shall, within the next 48 hours, make its final decision in respect of this amendment known.&#8221;<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; Says No Party Has Right To Impose Its Processes on Another The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it has rejected the passage of the harmonized electoral act amendment bill,&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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