Okupe also said that political parties in Nigeria are like
disposable syringes in reaction to reports that some politicians are
planning to form a mega party.
Former presidential aide, Doyin Okupe has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) has no political pedigree.
Okupe
also said that political parties in Nigeria are like disposable
syringes in reaction to reports that some politicians are planning to
form a mega party.
He made the comments via a statement. Read it below:
The
news is rife that a new mega party or what is generally referred to as a
third force, is in the offing. This situation has become so because of
the prevailing assumptions that the two main parties no longer give
confidence and hope to the generality of the populace and may have
actually become impossible to salvage.
The
veracity of this assumption is undoubtedly questionable but what is not
questionable is the fact that this is the perception of a majority of
our people. It is said however that in politics, perception is reality.
It
is interesting and sad that in Nigeria, political parties which are
essential institutions to growth and democratic advancement in modern
societies are like disposable syringes. They are used once to deliver a
specific medication at a prescribed time and discarded wantonly
thereafter
This sad narrative is probably
due to, amongst other reasons, the nature of the evolution of our
country, our post independent history, the effects of long period of
military rule, the character of the political elite who took over power
from the military, and perhaps the excessively lucrative nature of the
vocation itself.
The PDP would have been a
perfect model of a political institution for an emerging third world
democracy, due to the fact that it was formed by an overwhelming
national consensus, not patterned around the usual individual or
regional ownership of political parties or association.
No
doubt, poor leadership, lack of clearly defined and structurally
entrenched ideology, and being subsequently overburdened by greed and
its own portion of the pervasive national corruption, finally conspired
to bring the roof down. The APC on its part has no known political
pedigree or antecedents and was hurriedly put together to take power
from the PDP government.
Our definition
of mega party does not include a robust manifesto that clearly
identifies the needs of our people, our objectives and goals as a
nation, and a verifiable and realistic road map of how to get there.
Neither
does it include identifiable errors of the past, and a prescription of
how to correct them. It also does not include the various socio-economic
and structural challenges we face as a nation and a value proposition
on how to overcome them. We rely on mega personalities and mega names to
form new mega parties bedeviled by old mega problems.
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