Dr Okwesilieze Nwodo, former nationwide chairman of Peoples Democratic Occasion, PDP, a former governor of Enugu State and at the moment, a member of the Nationwide Govt Committee and Board of Trustees of the occasion, in an interview with Vanguard says the All Progressive Congress, APC, has by no means been a political occasion.
Answering questions on a myriad of points happening within the nation, particularly with APC, Nwodo mentioned those that are in PDP are very proud of what is going on in APC.
In response to him, APC was by no means actually a celebration. There have been varied political events that got here collectively to type APC.
“They’ve by no means merged into one occasion. Two, the President has not been a celebration man as a result of when the President is concerned within the occasion, more often than not when there’s a disaster and the president steps in, all people will sit up and he’ll be capable to reconcile all people.
“Take a look at Obaseki, Oshiomole and the Nationwide Working Committee of the APC went to the Villa. Once they obtained to the Villa, they noticed the Chief of Workers. When Obaseki went there, he noticed the Chief of Workers. The place is the President? It is a occasion that misplaced elections in Rivers State, misplaced elections in Zamfara.
“They’ve been having this drawback all over the place and dropping election, so why can’t they get their acts collectively? However the extra they don’t current candidates, the higher for us. However in attempting to deal with the issue, I consider that democracy has been slipping by our fingers and if we permit it to proceed like this, we are going to simply be having fun with dictatorship”.
Nwodo additional mentioned that democracy has guidelines and rules which ought to be noticed and due to the way in which it’s being noticed, each events deliver up flawed candidates after which Nigeria finally ends up with the flawed leaderships.
He steered that if Nigeria does inside democracy and set up clear primaries, every occasion will come out with credible candidates and Nigeria will find yourself electing high quality leaders in a free and truthful election however we practise godfatherism.
Moreover, Nwodo mentioned “We use all types of concerns to current our candidates and these candidates will not be representing the occasion as a result of they weren’t chosen by the occasion after which, they go to basic election and the safety businesses and INEC will connive and write outcomes for whomever they like. We can’t produce first-class management utilizing these sorts of strategies. So, till we do issues proper, we can’t anticipate appropriate solutions. Let there be revolution that may allow us produce high quality leaders for the nation”.
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