 The leadership of the National Assembly is lamented the high rate of serving lawmakers not returning in the night assembly. They blame this development for the lawmakers inability to retain their legislative sit under use of indirect mode of primary elections and adjusts currently the primaries across the country. Emmanuel A. Jenner completes the reports. Leadership of both chambers of the National Assembly lamented the imperfections in Nigeria's democratic process, especially at the just concluded primaries across the country. They identified the indirect primary, especially as it relates to the election of delegates as a major impediment to genuine quest for democracy in the country. The Speaker of Right Honourable Femigbe Dabiamila and the former Deputy Senate President Ike Ikwere Madu made his observations at a commemorative lecture. The democratic experience, reflections on leadership recruitment, and democratic institution building. Dabiamila insisted that there is no substitute to direct primary in any democracy. Pointing out the arrangements that allow individuals to decide for the people is inimical to Nigeria's democracy. The system has its practice. Now, let me interject. There's nothing wrong with indirect primaries. Absolutely nothing wrong. There are hundreds that practice that. But you see, all politics is local. It is actually how those delegates are produced that is a problem. And for as long as we are in a situation where a group of men, perhaps maybe sometimes women, sit on a kitchen table and determine who is a delegate. Who is a delegate and who is not a delegate? Then we don't have a democracy. Former Deputy President of the Senate Ike Ikwere Madu shared similar views with the Speaker. He said the National Assembly must find a way to restrict political parties to direct primary for Nigeria's democracy to flourish. Today, not only does one implement a greater group in the emergence of candidates, turning delegates to overnight millionaires because delegates are fewer. The non-partisan-satisfying delegates were straight playing into the hands of the governments who colluded with greedy party leaders to manipulate the margins of three-man and five-man government delegates as case may be and went ahead to recognize them fully for their separate political interests. At the end of the day, democracy and the people are at the receiving end. Earlier, Director-General NILDS noted that despite making significant progress in five multi-party elections in 22 years and with improved electoral and legislative framework, the country's democracy continues to suffer in so many ways. He listed some of the impediments to democracy in the country as inducements of delegate, votes-buying and the influence of money-backs as well as high costs of nomination fees by political parties. The event was organized by the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies in commemoration of the June tour.