By: Monday Danladi, Bauchi
Nigeria’s President, Sen Bola Ahmed Tinubu has been urged to allow democracy thrive in the country by not forcing party members to adopt consensus in selecting their preferred candidates.
The President was also reminded that he became the Presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2023 through popular votes by the members, not through consensus, which he is believed to be promoting now.
The assertion was made by Musa Buba Mohammed, a member of the APC in Bauchi State while fielding questions on the conduct of the gubernatorial primary elections in the state.
He said that, “Let the President be more democratic. The President should remember that he emerged as the President of the country through the ballot papers. I was a delegate during the primary election. He did not emerge as a consensus candidate. He emerged through the voice of the people. And he became the President of Nigeria through the ballot papers. That’s what we want. That’s the right thing to do.”
He added that, “And here are we are keeping members of our loyal and peaceful members of our APC. We are here to see the members of the subcommittee that are sent to Bochi to conduct the primary election for the gubernatorialship. And unfortunately, we did not see them. We are here to register our grievances that we are in democracy.”
According to him,”Democracy is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people. Not a government of the people, by the people, for the few. The few cannot come and take the face of the state. What we are demanding for is peaceful, free, and fair primary election. We want democracy. That’s all what we are demanding. ‘
He stressed that,”We need the election to be credible. That’s why we are here to see the officials. We are waiting for the date. Whenever they announce the date, we are ready to go to the election. What we want is election”.
” Like I said earlier on, democracy is the government of the people by the people and for the people. Not a government by the few. So we’re waiting for them ” he added
He further stated that, “Our demand is just a free and credible election. That’s just what we are demanding. We don’t have any feelings over the postponement of the primary election. We don’t have any feelings. Whatever negative or positive. We remain adamant. We want primary election to be conducted.”
He asked, ‘Why is it that? Why is there postponement? Why did they postpone the election? Why? There must be a reason for the postponement. Otherwise, how come they conducted the national assembly and state assembly primaries?
He added that, W.hy did they have to postpone that of Bauchi and Kwara states, which means there’s a power play.”
..Also speaking, Comrade Abdulaziz Nasrullah from Katagum Local Government said that, “I’m here to take over our grievances on the gubernatorial primaries of our party. We need a credible primaries that represents the will of the people and the will of democracy. Because in Bauchi State, we need a credible candidate that represents the people of the state, not to represent the few people that are selected by their croonie for their own selfish interest.”
He added that,” We are aware that the exercise has been suspended and the primary election, will hold tomorrow, we don’t know the reason for the change, why are they going to hold the primary election tomorrow.”
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