National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, has warned that Nigerians may
vote against the party in 2019.
“We created a machine that has started a significant move in entrenching democracy in this country. What is democracy? It is the ability to hire and fire”, he said.
“It was the first time that Nigerians had the ability of firing and it has become internalised in our political psyche. We know that we should not make the mistakes of the PDP. We too now know that we can be fired and that is democracy”, he added.
Oyegun spoke on Tuesday at the
APC National Secretariat in Abuja, when he was formally presented with the book
“APC: The Making of a Change Agent” written by Special Assistant to the
President on Prosecution, Okoi Obono-Obla.
Obono-Obla served as the
Secretary of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) Alliance/Merger Committee.
Oyegun urged others who
“participated intimately” in the formation of the APC to document their record
of events for posterity.
“It is important because in a few years, peripheral people like happens today in the case of June 12, sort of claim ownership of an event they know very little about In fact, we encourage all those who participated intimately to document their record of what they think happened”, he said.
“Historians will then later take these slightly different versions considering the perspectives were you were standing to watch the show. And we will eventually have a comprehensive rendition of what happened.
“It was the first time a merger of that type had succeeded. It is the first time people had the intense nationalism to make the degree of sacrifice that was called for in agreeing to a merger.”
Oyegun however hailed the
contributions of chairmen of parties that merged, ex-vice president, Atiku
Abubakar, ex-governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu and ‘new PDP’ entrants in
ensuring victory for President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
The ‘new PDP’ members where
senators, Reps members, governors under the People’s Democratic Party that
defected to the APC after its formation.
“We had three party chairmen, and a lot of other individuals- former vice president, Atiku Abubakar, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and a few others who participated actively. And we must not forget the role that was played by the new PDP.”
Speaking, Obono-Obla said, “The
book tells the story of the APC; How the APC was founded; the intense
negotiations; support of the governor; and how the APC dethroned an incumbent
government, unprecedented in the history of Nigeria.
“It was necessary for a member of the merger committee to tell the story so that there is no distortion and misrepresentation of facts. This generation and generations to come will read this story and also see how the PDP failed so that the APC will not make the same mistake.
“Because if we make that mistake, the Nigerian people will punish us as they punished the PDP. We should run a democratic party. I am happy that the APC National Chairman is doing his best and despite all the turbulence, the Party is still one.”
Present at the book presentation
were the APC National Auditor, George Moghalu; National Organising Secretary,
Osita Izunaso and National Vice Chairman (South East), Emma Eneukwu.
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I pray for Nigeria as follows;
1) This Change shall work indeed work for Nigeria by that special grace of almighty God and to the shame of every hidden or visible enemy of progress in Nigeria.
2) May God complete the deliverance of Nigeria from utter backwardness in the mighty name of Jesus, Amen.
3) May the Lord continue to frustrate and reduce to oblivion all the known and secret enemies of Nigeria in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.
4) May the Lord erase all the known and secret enemies of Nigeria like human fart in the mighty name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.