2023: Dino Melaye Counters PDP Govs On Direct Primaries, Provides Causes [VIDEO]

Dino Melaye a former senator within the eighth nationwide meeting has countered some governors who’re agitating for oblique primaries within the 2023 basic elections.

DAILY POST recollects that the Senate, after thorough deliberation by each chambers, lately handed the harmonized model of the Electoral Act (Modification) Invoice, 2021 which allowed for direct primaries as a method of returning democracy to the individuals.

However some Governors of the opposition Individuals’s Democratic Occasion, kicked towards the transfer, calling on the lawmakers to reverse the regulation.

Dino, in a video on his verified Fb web page on Wednesday, backed the lawmakers, explaining that it’s a higher strategy to enable Nigerians select their leaders.

He mentioned, “I do know that many governors are towards direct primaries however I’m not towards it as a result of democracy is the federal government of the individuals by the individuals and for the individuals.

“However ‘Delegatocracy’ is a authorities of the delegates by the delegates for the delegates and this shouldn’t be made to find out the collective curiosity of the individuals.

“Democracy can be not ‘greedocracy’. Greedocray is a authorities of the grasping by the grasping and for the grasping. It’s time for us to take democracy again to the people who find themselves the homeowners of the federal government.

“Authorities just isn’t owned by the individuals in energy however Nigerians”.