Foundation member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu, says the party doesn’t need to operate in a one-party system to win elections in the country.
Okechukwu cited the electoral fortunes of the APC in the 2015, 2019, and 2023 general elections to buttress his assertions in a statement made available to The Guardian on Sunday.
He said that what true democrats want is a formidable Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) that will act as checks and balances and catapult Nigeria to democratic maturity, not a weak coalition.
He, however, said that as things stand, there is nothing anybody can do to save the PDP from its dangerous slide from a major to a minor political party, consequent upon “self-induced impunity.”
He regrettably bid PDP goodbye and lamented that with the birth of the APC in 2013, he had hoped that Nigeria was heading to intense rivalry between two formidable political parties, which is the hallmark of an advanced multiparty system in the world.
“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 economic hardship in the land, he said that APC, in the full cycle of economic reforms, will fix the economy and provide Nigerians Gross National Happiness.