Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has called on the political parties to practice proper internal democracy to help solve 80 per cent of electoral challenges in the country.
INEC Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in Enugu State, Dr Emeka Ononamadu, made this call in a welcome address during a 3-day, “Capacity Building Workshop on Political Party Management and Administration and Party Audit’’ in Enugu.
The participants of the ongoing workshop are Heads of Election and Party Monitoring, EPM, department in INEC within the 17 states in the southern part of the country.
Ononamadu noted that the workshop was critical to the ongoing reforms in INEC especially for political parties to always abide by the electoral law guiding all stakeholders concerned with elections.
According to him, bad internal democracy in political parties most time snowballs beyond internal wrangling in parties but effect the outer society and entire electoral process.
Those that emerge or lose in well laid out internal party primaries according to the electoral law would agree that the process is fair and credible, and there would be fewer disagreements on results.
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