The time for primary elections to nominate candidates for elective offices in the forthcoming general elections is a delicate time for all the political parties in Nigeria. But it is even more critical for the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria‘s largest party by both membership and control of state power. There is a keen interest in and strong contest for each elective office.
While it is managing size and success as it exercises power at the federal level and runs 22 of the 36 states of the federation plus the Federal Capital Territory, the party has attracted so many aspirants for each elective office that, without absolute transparency and clear level playing field for all aspirants during the primaries, nobody can accurately predict the effects of the primaries on APC‘s stability and sustainability as a united party.
Indeed, the leadership of the APC is aware of the fact that the main opposition party, which was dominant in Nigeria‘s democratic space for…
