Delegates, Our Biggest Problem, Our Enemies
Delegates, Our Biggest Problem, Our Enemies By: Oriaifoh Godwins Our flawed selection process in identifying candidates by the different Political parties, is the main cause of our bad, irresponsive and irresponsible governments, at the Local, State and Federal levels in Nigeria as the so called DELEGATES, after being paid, simply sell off the future of a whole constituency to the highest bidder, irrespective of whether such a person is a buffoon, insane, or an imbecile…they are never bothered about who they vote for to represent their party, as long as they get their money. During electioneering periods such as the one we are about to begin very soon in Edo state, the process and criteria of selecting who gets the ticket, and eventually become the candidate of the political parties, will begin with the conduct of the primary elections, where the electoral college, the so called DELEGATES of the different political parties gather to vote for one out of the aspirants. THIS IS WHERE THE ...