Nigeria: PDP Convention - Coercive Consensus As Culture

16 March 2012
opinion

Leaders of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP had in recent months spoken much of enthroning internal democracy in the affairs of the party. Ahead of its national convention in Abuja next weekend, the indications are that old habits die hard.

EVEN among its most prominent members including some elected public officials, the concept of election in choosing offices and candidates for public office in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP remains an anomaly.

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