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Senator Shehu Sani (APC-Kaduna Central) has expressed dissatisfaction over the proposal by some APC governors that the ruling party should adopt indirect primaries as the mode of picking its candidates.
Direct primaries involves the participation of all party members in the selection of party candidates while indirect primaries involves use of delegates.
The APC used the direct primaries to elect its governorship candidate in Osun for next month’s governorship election.
However, it is no longer a secret that some governors are applying pressure on the national leadership of the party to adopt indirect primaries to choose candidates for the 2019 elections.
Speaking on the issue with newsmen on Wednesday, Shehu Sani said: “indirect primaries is a boulevard to corruption. It’s a seed to imposition, manipulation and systematic desecration of the anti-corruption crusade of the government and the party.
“Indirect Primaries is a bidding process, a slave market and an auction house where price tag is placed to honour.”
The lawmaker urged all members of the party to reject the method.