The real threat to the electoral fortunes of parties is not competition but the concentration of power in the hands of a few. Consensus candidacy is undemocratic because it silences members, empowers party godfathers and oligarchs, and empties politics of genuine choice. It must be confronted for what it is: a sophisticated instrument of exclusion […]The post Consensus candidacy: When elite imposition overthrows the people’s democratic will, By Samson Itodo appeared first on Premium Times Nigeria.