IPAC Lampoons Electoral Act, Says Parties At Liberty To Choose Primary Format

The Inter-Party Advisory Council, IPAC, has pooh- poohed certain provisions in the newly enacted Electoral Act 2026 noting that they must be are urgently amended.

IPAC Chairman, Yusuf Dantalle, who spoke in an interview on Channels Television’s Politics Today, argued that the law, recently signed by President Bola Tinubu, contains provisions that could undermine internal party democracy and weaken the credibility of the electoral process.

He further said that political parties were at liberty to choose their mode of primary election in line with their constitution, warning that opposition political parties across the country might boycott the 2027 general elections if controversial provisions in the newly enacted Electoral Act 2026 were not urgently amended.

 Aso, addressing reporters shortly after an emergency meeting with leaders and representatives of political parties at the council’s national secretariat in Abuja, Dantalle, noted that the council had resolved to mobilise parties nationwide to resist the provisions if the National Assembly fails to correct them.

He further stressed that though the Electoral Act 2026 was intended to address anomalies in the Electoral Act 2022, several sections of the new legislation introduced fresh challenges capable of weakening multiparty democracy.