CSOs should monitor political parties’ primaries – INEC
has called on civil society organisations to pay more attention to the affairs of political parties and their primary elections.
However, for the offseason elections, INEC had earlier announced plans for the upcoming Bayelsa and Kogi governorship elections. The elections will hold simultaneously in the two states on November 16. Parties’ governorship primaries in both states are expected to have ended by September 5. ”In many of the CSO’s reports on the conduct of the 2019 general elections that I have seen, they have not yet sufficiently focused much attention on political parties. But the primaries to every election are very important that CSO’s need to begin to focus much on these party primaries as they do before and their activity towards the conduct of general elections entirely.
However, Cynthia Mbamalu, the Programme Manager, YIAGA Africa, in her response, said observer groups do not get INEC accreditation to observe and monitor political primaries elections.The programme manager also accused political parties of seeing their elections as a party affair rather than a national affair that citizens should have an interest in and should be granted access to observe the process.
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