The All Progressives Congress (APC) national chairman, Abdullahi Ganduje, claims that politics is the “biggest problem” with how elections are conducted in the nation.
Ganduje spoke on Wednesday while hosting a delegation from the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
The delegation was led by Hawa Habibu, director of election and party monitoring.
The INEC delegation was conducting a verification exercise.
The APC chairman stated that while insecurity is a major threat to elections, politicians are also involved.
Ganduje said:
“It is important for INEC to undertake the exercise so that they can obtain the viability of political parties for the sake of planning and records and in conformity with the law.”
“I know one of the biggest problems of INEC in conducting elections is insecurity. Everyone will say INEC, but it is the politicians.
“So to understand the rules and regulations of the election, to understand what is required to be a civilised politician, our institutions will be educating our people from time to time, so that they can abide by the rules and it will be digital.
“We have also directed that all our party offices ranging from ward, local government, zone, and states, basically the officers must be available.”
According to the former governor of Kano, the ruling party is establishing the National Institute for Progressive Studies (NIPS) to teach members the “basics of democracy”.
According to Habibu, the delegation came to ensure that the APC meets the basic requirements of a political party.
She said:
“We are here on an annual verification of political parties. It is a constitutional mandate of the commission.”
“We are supposed to find out and issue notices where political parties are not in compliance with the constitutional provisions as to the number, structure of the party in terms of the office in Abuja, auditing of their finances and other issues.”