The All Progressives Congress (APC) has made the list of political parties with the best-organised primary elections in the current electoral cycle.
The list was created by socio-political commentator, Sam Amadi, who claimed that the African Democratic Congress (ADC) conducted the best primary elections, citing the party’s structured leadership, while placing the ruling APC as a close second.
Amadi, who is a supporter of the Nigerian Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential hopeful, Peter Obi, made these observations while characterizing most of the primary elections conducted by political parties as “flawed and fraudulent.”
Taking his X handle, Amadi claimed that aside from the ADC and APC, other party primaries were mere jokes.
He wrote, “So far @ADCNig has been the best in organising primary elections. On the whole, the primary elections have been flawed and fraudulent. But the leadership at the ADC has been more organised and structured. It has delivered the best primary elections in this electoral cycle.
“@OfficialAPCNg is close second. It was bold, ambitious, but reckless and fraudulent. Its primaries were less efficient and more fraudulent. But kudos for APC being bold and largely coherent.
“If I did not mention you, then it means yours was a joke.
“There is no way to have a good direct primary without clear rules, good systems and protocols. You cannot have a direct primary if you do not know how to determine a member of a party.
“We should not have primaries in one day. It should take weeks or months to have meaningful elective primaries”.
The assessment comes at as the NDC is currently conducting its primary elections nationwide. Notably, the ADC presidential primaries produced former vice president Atiku Abubakar, while the APC primaries produced President Bola Tinubu.