The Electoral Act is very clear. You can’t maintain an active registered membership in multiple political parties. You can’t participate in the primaries for 2 different political parties.
The Electoral Act doesn’t allow it. INEC will invalidate your participation via your NIN.
If your candidate feels he would be schemed out in a political party and decides to move early, you all must resign your membership and hope the old Party removes your name and NIN from the party register.
For you to leave a party, you must resign formally through a letter written to the ward chairman. The party must remove your name and NIN from its digital register.
The statutory deadline for submission of party digital register makes it very difficult for a candidate to cross to another party to snatch a ticket. The individual must have registered with the party and the party must have submitted his or her name with the party register.
Once parties submit the digital membership register on April 21, your candidate can no longer use the plan B option. The Electoral Act has removed that option.
You better find out where your candidate is headed.
When a confused man leads a thoughtless mob. Before you register at the ward level, be sure of the party you candidate belongs to. Let him show his membership publicly.
