Tag: IPAC

IPAC rejects drug test for aspirants, demands apology from NDLEA

Aminu Imam

The Inter-Party Advisory Council (IPAC), has rejected the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) proposal that political parties should make drug integrity test part of the screening requirements for aspirants seeking to contest political offices in the 2023 general election. In an issued statement signed by the IPAC National Chairman, Engr. Yabagi Yusuf Sani, the Council said the proposal portrays politicians as drug addicts who must be certified fit to run for various elective offices by the agency. “It is reprehensible and unacceptable”, IPAC said. It said this move is…

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2023: Nigeria Not Mature For Direct Primaries – IPAC

Aminu Imam

The Inter-Party Advisory Council, (IPAC), has backed President Muhammadu Buhari for declining assent to the amended Electoral Act which compels parties to adopt direct primaries to produce candidates for general elections. The National Chairman of IPAC, Yabagi Sani, while briefing newsmen on Monday, said though the provision may appear to be beneficial, Nigeria is currently not ripe to adopt such, and also urged the National Assembly not to attempt to veto the decision of the President as it will be a fruitless exercise. The IPAC also called on the Legislature…

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