Ahead of 2019 general election, INEC has said it is determined to stop the practice of vote-buying and selling before the election.
The Director of Electoral Party Monitoring ((EPM), Mr. Aminu Idris, stated this yesterday in Calabar during a Methodology Workshop on Campaign Finance Tracking and Debriefing on Political Parties’ Primaries.
While noting that the challenges parties faced during their primaries was due to poor planning, Idris urged them to be proactive, adding “To address some of these challenges, it is an on-going process that by 2019 general election, the commission is determined to properly address these issues of vote-buying and vote-selling.
The challenges are at the discretion of the political parties so the executive committees or organs of the parties should step up their games. They need to be more proactive in terms of planning by giving opportunities to members who want to contest to have full right. That is why the commission is always emphasising on internal party democracy.”
He expressed the hope that if all contestants we are allowed to take part in primaries, “I don’t think we will be having all these complaints. So the challenge is with the party executives to carry out free, fair elections.”
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