United Progressives Party (UPP),
Thursday accused the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) of defrauding and
trying to divide Nigeria as a nation.
National Chairman of the party,
Chief Chekwas Okorie, who spoke in Awka at the National Convention of the
party, insisted that the ruling party had failed to make good its promises of
bringing change, thereby, defrauding Nigerians who gave it votes based on that
promise.
He said: “We have been
politically defrauded by a political party that canvassed true federalism while
it sought for the votes of Nigerians; but, in a very unscrupulous and
unconscionable manner, promptly jettisoned its avowed article of faith and
foisted on harmless Nigerian citizens, the worst form of nepotism,
reductionism, lethargy, cluelessness and retrogression.”
Okorie, who described his party
as the most credible opposition party in the country today, devoid of rancor
and factionalisation in the foreseeable future, reaffirmed the party’s policy
to zone its presidential slot to the South-East geopolitical zone for the 2019
general elections.
Assuring that he would guard and
sustain the hard earned reputation’ of the UPP jealously, Okorie said “the
party would grant all federating units of the country the latitude to explore
and exploit their comparative advantage for national growth and development if
elected into power.”
While expressing support for the
use of the Electoral Voting System, he commended the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) and the National Assembly for their commitment to
the process.
Okorie noted that it would ensure
credibility and transparency of the electoral process.
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