Sunday 29 May 2022
Transition Monitoring Group berates INEC over extension of party primaries, warns delegates shouldn't mortgage Nigeria's future
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The Transition Monitoring Group, TMG, has berated the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for extending the deadline for the conduct of primary elections and submission of the list of nominated candidates for the 2023 general elections, from 3rd to 9th of June 2022.
While warning party delegates not to mortgage Nigeria's future, the group Rafsanjani, lamented the party primaries have led to an alarming increase in the rate of foreign exchange, saying that the Nigerian Naira has now reached an all-time high of N610 to a dollar.
Chairman of the election monitoring group, Auwal Musa Rafsanjani, in a statement lamented the extension, noting that the group received the news with great worries and concerns.
According to him, at a time when Nigerians are beginning to have confidence in the electoral umpire some powerful forces are trying to undermine and pressurize it to doing their biddings.
Rafsanjani stated that: “A lot of political parties have made efforts in conducting their primaries and if the ruling party is still uncertain about the day to conduct its presidential primary elections that shouldn’t be the basis for the extension.”
The Group also condemned the vote-buying incidents in the ongoing political party primaries across the country, stating that “any financial inducements on delegates were tantamount to the mortgaging of the country’s future.”
Rafsanjani said: “We are appalled by the incidents of vote-buying and sundry financial inducements on the delegates in the ongoing political party primaries across the country.
“Delegates should note that they don’t have to go to the extent of mortgaging Nigeria’s future on the altar of ephemeral financial gratifications. They should think of Nigeria first before any other considerations.
“Our observers reported that aspirants’ agents were largely involved in coordinating vote-buying for various persons seeking political offices, which is unfortunate.
“It should be noted that the influence of money in an election has far-reaching implications in Nigerian politics because any politician that spends to be voted for will surely work towards recouping the money at the end of the day, and it is still the voters that will be at the receiving end.”
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