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Africa-Press – Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale-Martins has faulted the delegate method being used by political parties in the country to choose party flag bearers, ahead of the 2023 general election.<\/p>\n

Adewale-Martins said this in an interview with NAN in Lagos on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

He said an arrangement where only a few party members are accorded the right to elect party standard-bearers would not give room for the best candidate to emerge and described it as utopian and defective.<\/p>\n

Adewale-Martins expressed disappointment in moneybag politics and called for the removal of the clauses in the electoral laws that allow parties to select their flag bearers through delegates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is a need for us to change the process with an open party member\u2019s primary to make the process more acceptable and all-inclusive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIts fault is that a moneybag politician can buy the conscience of the delegates to do his bidding at the expense of the party and the polity. At the end, the worst candidate may emerge.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you feel the impulse of the people on what is happening; the kind of characters this lopsided process is manifesting, you will observe that the people are unhappy with the products of the process,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Nigeria. The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale-Martins has faulted the delegate method being used by political parties in the country to choose party flag bearers, ahead of the 2023 general election. Adewale-Martins said this in an interview with NAN in Lagos on Tuesday. 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