Balarabe Musa, Okorie back multi-party system
By Patrick Okohue
A former Second Republic governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Abdulkadir Balarabe Musa, a left-wing Nigerian politician, has chided those calling for the limitation of political parties in the country, saying: “Trimming our political parties into a two-party system is undemocratic and does not help Nigeria.”
This is even as the National Chairman of United Progressives Party (UPP), Chief Chekwas Okorie said multiple political parties are the necessary ingredients for deepening and promoting democracy.
Musa and Okorie spoke at different occasions.
For Musa multi-party system gives people a choice to vote their preferred candidates into any office in the land, adding “It’s the electorate that should determine the lifespan of a political party, not the electoral umpire.”
While Okorie believes that “Multiple political parties deepen and promote our democracy. It provides a wider space and alternative options to aspirants. Nigeria must embrace Electronic Voting System EVS to cope with the multiplicity of candidates during elections.
“Antagonists of multi-parties must know that their fears will be worsened when Independent Candidature will come on stream with all its logistics and management implications”, he said.
