Consensus candidacy, opposition alliances, not for the North, says Gen. Haruna

General Ibrahim Haruna, the Chairman of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, in this encounter says that the search for consensus presidential candidate of the PDP from the North and the alliance of presidential aspirants like Buhari, Ribadu and Shekarau should not be treated as a Northern issue or be used to heat up the North. Rather, he dismisses them as internal democracies within political parties and not a northern agenda.
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The argument over amendment of the electoral act by the National Assembly and whether the president should assent the amended constitution or not is gathering momentum and may affect elections. What do you think of these argument?
First and foremost, whatever needs to be added to the electoral act to promote internal democracy in the political parties must be founded on the legitimacy of the constitution. So, if constitution amendment is not legitimate, any law made following it remains null and void.
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