Former President Goodluck Jonathan has advised Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) leadership to increase statutory delegates’ number for the party’s elections, especially state and local government primaries, in its Constitution’s review.
Jonathan gave the advice yesterday in his office in Abuja, when he received a delegation of the former Speakers of State Houses of Assembly elected on PDP platform.
He said that one of the major challenges facing the PDP was how it elected candidates and national officers of the party. He said that there would always be crisis over outcome of the party’s primary elections or conventions unless the number of statutory delegates to those elections was reviewed upward to about 70 per cent.
Jonathan said that the party must work out modality in which no one person could influence the choice or number of delegates to elections. He suggested that those who had served at certain levels, including governorship, ministerial, parliamentarian positions at all levels, should be statutory delegates.
“That is the area we have not been able to manage properly that is still creating problem for us. I believe the next constitution amendment should advocate for that area to be properly examined,” he said.
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