NDC Crisis Deepens As Party Demands Candidates Sign Indemnity To Bar Court Actions
Nigeria Democratic Congress faces backlash after asking candidates to sign indemnity forms restricting legal challenges over primaries.
Nigeria Democratic Congress faces backlash after asking candidates to sign indemnity forms restricting legal challenges over primaries.
About three weeks after its primaries, the Nigeria Democratic Congress (NDC) has continued to be in the eye of the storm over alleged exchange of money for tickets for the 2027 elections and dictatorship in its consensus arrangement across the states.
The party on Tuesday invited its aggrieved candidates to sign an indemnity form that they should not go to court.
“You are invited to the media coverage of NDC candidates signing of indemnity form.Date: Tuesday, 16th June, 2026Venue: NDC party SecretariatTime: 2pm”, says the invitation by its National Publicity Secretary, Osa Director.
The invitation came about one week after the National Leader of the NDC and former Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, insisted that all its candidates emanated through due processes and on the recommendation of the stakeholders.
At an interactive session with the media, Dickson described the allegations of trading election tickets for money as cheap blackmail to spew false narratives and demarket the party.
He also explained that although the NDC does not have problems with its presidential flagbearers, Peter Obi and Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, the latter should caution his supporters popularly known as Kwankwasiyya Movement who are calling them names.
The National Chairman of NDC, Moses Cleopas, said the party has decided to open a presidential campaign council fund to drive its campaign.
As the NDC prepares for campaigns, the party said it is not going to be business as usual where resources are in the hands of one man. For the party, what’s is paramount now is the 2027 Polls and no distraction would make it lose focus.
