{"id":65533,"date":"2022-05-27T16:57:33","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T15:57:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/2023-jonathan-recommends-removal-of-section-84-of-electoral-act"},"modified":"2022-05-27T18:11:38","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:11:38","slug":"2023-jonathan-recommends-removal-of-section-84-of-electoral-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/2023-jonathan-recommends-removal-of-section-84-of-electoral-act","title":{"rendered":"2023: Jonathan recommends removal of Section 84 of Electoral Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Former President Goodluck Jonathan has recommended the removal of the controversial Section 84 of the new Electoral Act to allow political parties to decide modalities for candidates\u2019 elections.<\/p>\n

Jonathan gave the recommendation at the public presentation of a book by former Minister of State Power, Dr Mohammed Wakil, on Thursday in Abuja.<\/p>\n

The former president said that the National Assembly should allow political parties to have the leverage of doing certain things differently, as their needs were different.<\/p>\n

\u201cGive parties the leverage. The key thing is that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is regulating them.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey mentor them, and the system they will adopt in selecting their candidates must be documented in their constitution and copies deposited with INEC. That is what will be used to judge that party.<\/p>\n

\u201cParties are not parastatals of government and the National Assembly cannot make laws that choke the political parties. That is my take on this controversial issue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Jonathan also rated as low, the ongoing primaries by political parties to elect candidates for the 2023 general elections because of provisions of the 2022 Electoral Act.<\/p>\n

He said that the primary where only elected delegates were allowed to elect candidates, was already a failed process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe National Assembly made alterations to the Electoral Law, and now only what they call the `elected delegates\u2019 are to elect people that would vote. Then one day Nigerians will go to the polls and think they are voting a president?<\/p>\n

\u201cBut who presented presidential candidates for you? Very few people at the national level, at the state level, at the local districts, at the federal and state constituencies.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonathan cited a Federal Constituency in Bayelsa State with only two wards and just only six delegates that elected PDP candidates because every ward had three elected delegates.<\/p>\n

He said the situation was even more worrisome when the delegates were unknown figures in the society.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have former governors, former deputy governors, former Senators and all the rest. But then, we have only one elected delegate that you don\u2019t know where he is coming from.<\/p>\n

\u201cA delegate that will come to Abuja to select who becomes the presidential candidate. Is that the kind of democracy we will practice?<\/p>\n

\u201cBut those of us who have been involved know that it is terrible. Are we bringing those who really know who is who to elect these delegates or those delegates that can be bought over with money?\u201d<\/p>\n

Jonathan advised the National Assembly to make laws that would help solve problems, not those that were irrelevant or designed to create problems.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd laws must be made assuming those who are making the law are blind to any interest just like the judges, who rely on only the scale and the sword.<\/p>\n

\u201cLaws must not be made to target a group of individuals or an individual.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd when you go into that system of making laws, you will make this terrible mistake that messes things up like the primaries that are going on now.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we should rather think about institutionalised democracy and make it our culture,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. Former President Goodluck Jonathan has recommended the removal of the controversial Section 84 of the new Electoral Act to allow political parties to decide modalities for candidates\u2019 elections. Jonathan gave the recommendation at the public presentation of a book by former Minister of State Power, Dr Mohammed Wakil, on Thursday in Abuja. 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