Why Are Progressives Great at Morality, Terrible at Messaging?
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Lauren Zuniga - To The Progressives Plotting Mass Exodus
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A chief of the All Progressives Congress, Dr. Bukola Saraki, hassaid that APC will not disintegrate because of its presidentialprimaries.
He stated that the contestants had given assurance that they wouldabide by the outcome of the primaries and would work for the overallinterest of the party.
In an interview with journalists in Ilorin on Monday, he also said itwas a mere propaganda that APC would disintegrate after itsprimaries. He said such propaganda would not materialise.
According to him, the presidential primaries would rather unify andstrengthen the party.
Saraki said, This is the propaganda from the opposition. I want toassure Nigerians that the fact we are going to have the primariesshould not in any way disintegrate the party. I believe that even suchprimaries will help to unify the party. We saw it during the era ofSocial Democratic Party; after the primaries, the party did notdisintegrate, rather it made the party stronger.
Even in the early days of the Peoples Democratic Party, ChiefOlusegun Obasanjo and Dr. Alex Ekwueme had primaries and the party didnot disintegrate. I can open up and tell you that I have had theopportunity to sit with General Muhammadu Buhari, Alhaji AbubakarAtiku and Alhaji Rabiu Kwankwaso. There are assurances from them that whichever way the primary goes, they will support whoever emerges asthe candidate.
When we started to merge with the legacy parties, the opposition saidthe party will disintegrate with the merger. After that they said thatby the time we go for national convention the party woulddisintegrate, yet none happened.
The party will not disintegrate because we are all making sacrificesevery day. It is not easy to come together to take on a governmentwith this level of impunity. We are all doing this because we trulybelieve that this is the best way for Nigeria. I have utmostconfidence that whoever emerges as the presidential flag bearer forAPC, we will rally round the person.
Saraki who is Chairman, Senate Committee on Ecology and Environment,said he would soon inform Nigerians whether he would contest for the2015 presidential election or not.
He urged all Nigerians to rise above selfish ambitions and makenecessary sacrifices that would uplift the country.
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A former Vice-President and All Progressives Congress presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, has called for devolution of powers to give more resources to states in the country.
According to him, most of responsibilities being carried out by the Federal Government are supposed to be handled by the State Government.
He said the 2015 general elections was another opportunity for Nigerians to chase out the Peoples Democratic Party by voting for the APC.
Abubakar stated this on Monday in Ado Ekiti at the inauguration of the ultra-modern Oba Adejugbe General Hospital built by Governor Kayode Fayemi to mark the end of his four-year tenure in office.
Fayemi assured that the state had made efforts to ensure that itwas free of the Ebola.
Abubakar, who commended Fayemi for the feats explained that the Federal Government had no reason venturing into agriculture, health, employment and others, which were the fundamental statutory duties of the state government.
He said,The Federal Government is too powerful in Nigeria and has taken in more responsibilities than it is supposed to be. There is need to devolve powers to the state and if we move powers to the state government, we should also move resources alongside.
The Federal Government has no business handling projects in health, agriculture, employment and other sectors. I have always been saying this each time I have the opportunity.
The Federal Government ought to be left with foreign policy, defence and monetary policy, so that the Presidency can be made less attractive to reduce the tension in the polity.
Abubakar described the APC as a strong and better organised party to tackle poverty and rescue Nigerians from the sufferings brought by the PDP in the last 15 years.
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The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Monday disclosed that Peoples Democratic Party only succeeded in bringing misery to Nigeria since it took over government in 1999.
Oyegun argued that various sectors of the nations economy had suffered setbacks even after several promises were made under the PDP-led administration, which he described as a Poverty Developing Party.
The national chairman stated this when hosted some Ijaw youths under the aegis of the Izon-Ibe Global Policy Network in Benin, the Edo State capital.
The spokesperson for IGPN, Mr. Dennis Ayubelageta, explained that the group, which draws its membership from the Niger-Delta region of the country, had decided to throw its weight on the APC ahead of the 2015 presidential election, having been dissatisfied with the antics, whims and caprices of the ruling party at the top.
It also stated that it would carry out sensitization programmes to drum support for the APC across the federation.
W have carefully scrutinized, analyzed, systematically and scientifically probed and concluded that our dreams and aspirations are in pari-passu with the ideology and template of this great party.
Having been dissatisfied, discomfited with the antics, whimps and caprices of the ruling party at the top, we have resolved to liase, conglomerate, connect, associate and affiliate ourselves to this great party that is under the leadership of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Ayubelegeta said.
However, the APC national chairman stated that the PDP, through the federal government, failed to fix the challenges caused by poor road networks and tuned the nations power sector into its milk cow, rather than provide adequate electricity to energise the economy.
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