Speaking against the backdrop of internal crises being experienced by political parties, including the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party , the don, Professor Mansur Usman Malumfashi of the Faculty of Education, ATBU, noted that godfatherism was a major reason internal democracy was lacked ng within parties.
He submitted that contrary to the tenet of allowing the people to air their views, some politicians in some states would not allow internal democracy in their parties, saying that such politicians would impose their preferred aspirants on the parties by hook or crook. “But where you impose a candidate and you ask party faithful to elect him that is where the problem comes in,” he submitted.
“If you do that, at the end of it all, you will never see the politician until after four years. So on this also our citizens need sound political education because people are just giving out their mandate for just a piece of cloth,” he declared.