The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has described as charade the recently concluded primary elections held by various political parties ahead of the 2027 general elections.

IPAC National Chairman, Yusuf Dantalle, stated this on Tuesday at Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s Second Quarterly Consultative Meeting with leaders of political parties in Abuja.

Dantalle blamed the challenges that marred the primary elections on the restriction imposed by the Electoral Act 2026, which eliminated indirect primaries as a valid mode of candidate nomination.

According to him, the nomination exercise which officially concluded on Saturday, May 30, 2026, exposed significant legal, administrative and operational challenges that deserve urgent national attention.

He added that the restrictive provisions of Section 84(2) of the Electoral Act, 2026, which limited parties to either consensus or direct primaries, effectively cornered political parties into processes that were neither genuinely democratic nor practically workable.

The IPAC’s boss noted that in many instances, parties adopted the consensus option despite the existence of multiple aspirants who had duly purchased expression of interest and nomination forms.

“The exercise was a charade. While some aspirants accepted these arrangements in the interest of party unity, others challenged their exclusion, arguing that genuine consensus requires the voluntary agreement of all contestants.

“Consequently, several disputes have found their way to the courts, creating uncertainty and avoidable tension within the political system,” Dantalle said.

Former chairman of the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission, NERC, Sam Amadi, has described the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi and his Obidient followers as the most transformative force in Nigerian politics in the past two and half decades.

Amadi said Obi and his followers brought so much ideas, energy and vehemence into Nigerian politics.

Posting on X, Amadi urged Obi and his followers to be resolute and press harder in 2027.

He wrote: “@PeterObi and his Obidients have been the most transformative force in Nigerian politics in the two and half decades.

“The energies, the disruption and the ideas and vehemence they brought to Nigerian politics have parallel only in the 1960s.

“It does not mean they are good or bad people. It means they have been immensely transformative. Any serious and fair-minded political scientist will admit this.

“They should be resolute and press harder in 2027.”

A chieftain of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, Dele Momodu, has disclosed the response he got after asking the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi to work with Atiku Abubakar.

Momodu revealed that Obi turned down his request, stressing that he was more popular than Atiku.

Recall that the former governor of Anambra State was Atiku’s running mate in 2019 under the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

In 2023, Obi moved to the Labour Party where he contested the presidential election and came third behind Atiku of the PDP and President Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress, APC.

In an interview with Symponi TV, Momodu said: “Peter is the only politician who has visited my home in London, Ghana, and Lagos.

“In one of the visits, I told Peter, try and work with Atiku and I gave him copious examples that if Mahama was not a VP to Attah Mills, maybe he would never be President of Ghana because he came from the minority just like Jonathan of Nigeria.

“I gave him an example of America that even though Biden was much older than Obama, he still came back to become President because you are able to demonstrate your capacity.

“You have only been a governor of a state but Peter told me that he’s more popular than Atiku, I swear to God. If you see him ask him if I lied against him.”

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