Akpabio’s Blueprint for Defeated Senators: A reckless assault on electoral laws and party rules, by Abubakar M. Kareto The recent remarks credited to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, suggesting that the Senate leadership is working to secure tickets across party lines for incumbent senators who lost their bids, deserve serious democratic scrutiny. The Electoral Act is explicitly clear on how a political candidate can legitimately emerge: it must be through either direct primaries or consensus agreed upon by the cleared aspirants. Any political manoeuvring aimed at bypassing these legally defined...