Nigeria’s Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan has recently was cleared by a Bayelsa Federal high court to contest as president in the 2023 general elections, castigated the country’s major political parties for the mess they have made of their ongoing primaries for the 2023 elections.
The ‘The Ongoing Primaries is a Mess’ by GEJ was made know as the Peoples Democratic Party and All Progressives Congress are among the parties conducting their primaries now.
Jonathan, who spoke on Thursday in Abuja at the launch of a book titled: “Political Party Governance,” authored by Dr. Mohammed Wakil, a former Minister of State for Power, said:
“These whole primaries going on across the country is a mess.
Ex-President Goodluck Jonathan
“This is not a standard practice.
“The process has failed.
“We cannot use the process to elect president, governors, senators and House of Representatives members and others.
“The process is already failed, which is not good for the country.
“But we will manage and move on.
“We pray that good people should come.
“I hope that what happened this year, 2022, will not happen again in this country.”