Our big topic today and on both the IDEAS segment and on the main programme is the substitution of names of some winners of primaries by political parties. It’s recipe for disaster eh? So reports that several political parties have conducted parallel primary elections different candidates, and INEC has the unenviable task of sifting the wheat from the chaff.
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Our big topic today, on both on the IDEAS segment with Ayo Obe and on the main programme: Are we, the electorate, paying enough attention to the process of choosing vice presidential candidates and deputy governors. Why is this important? Because the VP or the Deputy Governor could become President or Governor in a variety of circumstances.
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Our big topic today, both on the IDEAS segment of the programme and on the second half is the Party Primaries. What happened during the party primaries? Many questions about the party primaries. Different political parties utilised different variations of the primary system to elect or select candidates. We are going to be talking about those.
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we’re here to talk about the issues of Integrity, Ethics, Accountability and their role in our Democracy. And I’m happy to have a guest with me, my first live guest in the studio. His name is Dr. Adeoye Joshua. He’s the pro tem Deputy National Secretary of the African Action Congress. He’s one of the founders and leaders of the Take It Back movement and I should also perhaps describe you as Chief of Staff to the presidential candidate of your party.
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Our big focus to day on the IDEAS segment of the programme as well as the bigger Countdown is Osun elections, and first on the line will be Clement Nwankwo, also a Legal Practitioner and coordinator of the civil society Situation Room. Clement will be joining us shortly
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Incumbency again has been, you use the power of the security agencies to go in massive force and so on. So that, while we still see some of that, certainly in terms of the amount of ‘security’, that is put out, especially when we are having these individual gubernatorial elections. But actually, we have not really seen it in terms of doing things that will make you very popular with the electorate, not just directly handing out bags of rice or tins of tomato paste or whatever.
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Thank you Rotimi. The IDEAS programme is something that I’ve been asked to do by the CITAD which is a Nigerian NGO, and they are being supported by the MacArthur Foundation, to get Nigerians thinking in a more critical way about issues relating to integrity, their democracy, ethics, accountability. Obviously, that includes things like anti-corruption, issues of corruption or corruption news but the emphasis is on how we can build these things so that our democracy becomes stronger
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