ADVERTISEMENTThe tension arising from governing APC’s multifaceted crises got to their peak last week when the Secretary of the Extraordinary Caretaker and Convention Planning Committee, James Akpanudoedehe had to call in security personnel to protect personnel and property at the party national secretariat. That same week, embattled opposition PDP was dogged with internal strife over […]
The tension arising from governing APC’s multifaceted crises got to their peak last week when the Secretary of the Extraordinary Caretaker and Convention Planning Committee, James Akpanudoedehe had to call in security personnel to protect personnel and property at the party national secretariat.
The house of commotion that has become the lot of our leading political parties is nothing other than struggle for power or relevance, conflict of interest and survival and not for the sake of instituting good governance or finding solutions to the country’s myriad of challenges. Recently, the Yobe State governor cum super chairman started a reregistration/revalidation exercise reminiscent of the PDP days, when braggadocio and intimidation of perceived ‘weak’ members held sway. He got away with it.
As embarrassing as this statement is for the party, it is actually a reflection of the sorry state of the party today: Buni needs to be protected from his own party men and women; police and DSS had to be called in to strengthen the chairman’s leadership in a democratic setting and party members had to be intimidated and harassed by its leadership for asking hard and legitimate questions? How...
The APC and PDP are acting as if Nigerians have no alternatives, but you can’t blame them. Before INEC axed 67 political parties, they were at best appendages of the ruling party, playing ignoble role of lining up behind the leading party, at the eleventh hour of election time, and get rewarded in return. So when people talk of a third force to replace APC and PDP, you’d wonder whether the members will be from Jupitar and not Nigeria.
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