Worried that political parties are not adhering to true democratic processes in nominating candidates who will represent the party in elections, the House of Representatives has mandated its committee on inter-parliamentary affairs to investigate and advice the House on steps to be taken to address the matter.
In the same vein, the leadership of the House has read the riot Act to concerned committees of the House to immediately conclude and make all reports on the 32 investigations undertaken available to the House.
Moving the motion, chairman of Business and Rules Committee, Hon. Albert Sam Tsokwa, noted that since the advent of democracy in Nigeria in 1999, political parties and politicians had failed to give Nigerians reasons to participate in full democracy by not allowing them the free hand to nominate candidates for elections.
He said, “We all went through the process of primaries to the elections proper, we know the stress we went through and all of that happened because of lack of internal democracy.
“We must ensure that there is internal democracy, so that at the end of the day, the people that would represent us would be people we respect; but the problem here is that once a candidate is favoured, it does not matter to him how the process was driven and that is why some people are bent on pulling down the country.”