Senate to consider Buhari’s position on primary elections – Opeyemi

Indications emerged yesterday that the National Assembly may reconsider President Muhammadu Buhari’s stance on the mode of selection of candidates contesting for various elective seats in the country.

The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Justice, Human Rights and Legal Affairs, Michael Opeyemi, has maintained that the National Assembly would consult with the Executive to bequeath to Nigerians an electoral act that would guarantee free and fair elections. fair in the country.

Speaking to journalists after submitting his expression of interest and nomination forms for the Ekiti governorship poll at the national secretariat of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abuja, he assured that a resolution amicable would be found on the electoral law.

Expressing his preference for direct primaries, Opeyemi argued that they remained the most viable means of selecting candidates acceptable to the party’s supporters.

He, however, noted that he would have no choice but to abide by the party’s decision in the primaries.

“There may be no particular mode which is acceptable to all the candidates at the same time and this is the essence of democracy, and that is why the party constitution provides for three different modes of conduct of primary elections.

“One is the direct primary mode. The second is an indirect primary and the third is a consensus. It depends on the party leadership. But for me there certainly cannot be a consensus. I don’t see that happening,” he said.