Story from Ibraheem Hamza MUHAMMED, Lafiya
Rising insecurity has been identified as the main cause of voter apathy in Nigeria.
The newly elected chairman of Transition Monitoring Group (TMG), Auwal Musa Rafsanjanibsaid, on Thursday, in Abuja at a press conference it worrisome that many Nigerians especially those living in crises areas due to armed banditry are being disenfranchised as they have either been displaced or are scared to go spend a whole day to vote.
According to him, “Nigerians are increasingly losing confidence in our electoral system which is full of all forms of malpractice, manipulation, violence, commercialization, and privatization of political parties and political offices for self-centred interest.
“TMG, we will do our best to advocate for electoral transparency and accountability by mobilizing Nigerians to demand positive change in our electoral process. Your appreciation of TMG and what it represents in Nigeria is an attestation of the confidence you have in its leadership and the trust you have for us as a flagship organization in the electoral system,” he said.
Auwal Musa Rafsanjani said that TMG recognizes that Nigeria practices a party democracy, hence, political parties are the vehicle for political emergence in Nigeria and places importance on the quality of internal democracy within the political parties as they are the platforms upon which leaderships from the grassroots to the national level would emerge.
He said that TMG frowns at the current state of political parties in Nigeria with the lingering crisis suggesting an apparent lack of internal democracy, privatization, and commercialization of political parties where godfatherism holds absolute control of party structure. In ensuring intraparty accountability, TMG will be Observing party conventions as part of our commitment to provide technical support to intraparty reforms and entrenchment of internal democracy.
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