One of the underpinning requirements of a healthy democracy is the inalienable right of the people( the electorates) to freely choose those to govern them. In our checkered political history, God fathers and political office holders have mortgaged that freedom to freely choose and replaced it with their co-precious whims.
This singular act of callousness has contributed to our arrested development. We are by potential, the greatest country on the African continent. Our federal lawmakers (NASS) by their collective wisdom passed the Ammended 2021 Electoral Act on November 9, and transmitted same to Mr President for assent which would make it law. As expected, many politicians especially the main opposition, party, the PDP, APC Governors and minister of Justice/ AG, Malawi, kicked.
Two major plants of disagreements are that the Direct Primary is very capital intensive and that the NASS had no right to constrain political parties to adopt the method. Water the mandation 19 days within which the president’s signature would make the bill law lapsed on December 19, the whole country waits with bated breath for the federal lawmakers to apply its veto power this over ridding the President via a ⅔ majority. Constitutional or liberal democracy, which we from the western world, remains, even if arguably, the best option for us, if we are to join the rest of the liberal world in forging ahead. So Mr President must play ball.
