The Lagos Democratic Forum (LDF) has condemned what it described as the ongoing desecration of democratic ethos in the Lagos State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC). In a press statement signed by Chief Kunle Dada and Comrade Wale Andyright, the group's Coordinator and General Secretary, respectively, the Forum observed that Ahmed Bola Tinubu’s 'directive' given to the party rank-and-file to jettison party primaries for the forthcoming local government elections in the state is undemocratic and contradicts the APC’s constitution and values. "What Asiwaju Tinubu is doing to the Lagos APC is unfortunate. APC, as a progressive party, is supposed to model the grundnorm of democracy, yet one of the basic requirements of that grundnorm is internal democracy. Candidates of the party must emerge as the popular choices of all registered and qualified members of the party, voting freely," the LDF wrote in its statement. At a meeting of local governme...
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