A legal practitioner, Frank Tietie, has said that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and President Bola Tinubu are ceding significant influence and control over its primary elections to various state governors.
NewsWatch Nigeria reports that Tietie made the remarks during an interview on Arise Television on Sunday while reacting to the current political activities in the country ahead of the 2027 general elections.
Tietie asserted that the act might establish the president’s position, and it is his political decision, stressing that the problem is the protection of the aspirant’s individual rights, who has indeed submitted a voluntary withdrawal form, agreeing to a consensus candidate.
He further said that full disclosure of the process should be available upon obtaining the form, warning that if the process is breached, the individual can approach the courts.
He said, “The APC and the president are ceding a lot of influence and control of the primary election process to the governors. It might tend to ensconce his own position. It’s a decision that is political. That’s left for him.
“The protection of the individual’s right, who has indeed submitted a voluntary withdrawal that he will agree to a consensus candidate.
“I think he might ultimately be aggrieved if he does approach the court to say the processes of achieving the consensus were actually breached.
“So those processes ought to be disclosed to him at the time he was collecting the form and submitting the form.
“Process could be that there would be a ballot or it could just be by way of throwing dice, whatever it is.”
