By Jude Opara
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, (APC), Osita Okechukwu, yesterday said it’s time to “bid the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP) goodbye”.
Okechukwu said the PDP is “dangerously sliding from major to minor political party” due to self induced impunity.
Addressing journalists in Abuja, the former Director General of the Voice of Nigeria, (VON), lamented that with “the birth of the APC in 2013, some of us had hoped that Nigeria was heading to intense rivalry between two formidable political parties, which is the hallmark of advanced multiparty system in the world”.
Okechukwu also noted that he is not a fan of one party system, adding that “sincerely APC doesn’t need to operate in one party system to win elections”, citing the 2015, 2019 and 2023 general elections.
He stressed that what true democrats want is a formidable PDP, to provide checks and balances in the polity and catapult Nigeria to democratic maturity, not a weak coalition.
“In fact one was in league with those who cried out, when PDP violently breached the rotation convention of president from north to south and vice versa, a toolkit conceived by patriots in 1999 for peace, unity and good health of our democracy and dear country and Section 7 of their constitution.
“The outcome is the disintegration of the party, for he who cultivated ill wind will surely reap whirlwind.” Okechukwu opined.
On the hardship in Nigeria, Okechukwu said that the APC in the full cycle of economic reforms will fix the economy and provide Nigerians Gross National happiness.
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