The first step in losing an election is to impose a candidate on the party by way of automatic ticket, especially, at the presidential level. I have brought out this experience against the backdrop of the plan by the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to grant automatic ticket to the incumbent president and perhaps the state governors and lawmakers in the forthcoming 2019 general elections. Good enough that the Imo State Governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha has opposed the idea of automatic ticket for anybody. Democratic norms demand that every interested aspirant should pass through the crucible of party primaries to be a legitimate and democratic choice. Adesina’s clarification corroborated with the contrary view expressed by Okorocha, who stated that there would be no automatic ticket for Buhari.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2017 03:56 UTC