Opinion: Five Years of APC and the Journey Ahead, By Waziri Bulama
More recently, June entered history as the birth month of our party, the ruling All Progressives Congress . Like the June 12 election over 20 years earlier, the formation of the APC in 2013 and its eventual landmark electoral victory two years later, was a unifying moment in the history of Nigeria.
Around this time seven years ago, our leaders from what came to be dubbed as the legacy parties, namely: the Action Congress of Nigeria , the Congress for Progressive Change , and the All Nigeria Peoples Party , were inking the historic merger deal, giving up their respective platforms, which were fiercely national but limited in geographical reach, for a broader national project.
Now, it is an entirely different ball game from forming a formidable opposition party, and to successfully transit into a governing one, like the APC. With its historic trumping of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party in the 2015 elections, the APC government at the centre, and in the majority of Nigerian states, took over the saddles of power at a very difficult time. The country was fractious, the national economy was being battered by recession, while an insurgency had rendered over 1.
Consolidating on the way it came to power, the government and the party, under the leadership of President Muhammadu Buhari, have perpetrated the transfer of electoral might and decisions to the people. The resolve to self-help or recourse to godfathers in political contests is fast giving way to a free and fair process in which only the people at the grassroots have the power to decide. There is no greater consolidation of democracy.
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