Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the
All Progressives Congress (APC), says dividends of democracy is a mistake as
dictatorship also comes with dividends.
Oshimhole said this while
fielding questions from journalists after his meeting with President Muhammadu
Buhari on Wednesday.
Asked to react to the criticisms
from members of his party on both the ministerial and senate committee chairmen
lists, the chairman of the ruling party said people have the rights to pass
comments even when such are not valid.
“Why should we be worried? Nobody
wants graveyard silence. It is not for nothing that we asked for multi-party
democracy, I have said to people when they talk about dividend of democracy, I
have said it is a mistake, even dictatorship has dividends,” he said.
“What differentiates democracy
from dictatorship is that free people have the right to make observations and
to complain even if there is no validity in those complaints, feeling that they
have spoken truth to power. It doesn’t mean they are right nor are they wrong,
it shows that in our party we want to entrench the culture of contesting issues
that people feel they are not comfortable about. It doesn’t mean that they are
right.
“On the committees of the Senate
and House of Reps, this question should rather be put to the leadership of the
two chambers. But if you have fewer numbers of committees relative to the
number of members in the Senate and House of Reps, however you do it, guess you
will always find someone complaining.”
He said the problem with the
media is that focus is only on those who are aggrieved, and not including those
who are happy.
“Even in business, you have
profit and loss, that is the balance sheet. Any balance sheet without those two
headings is not complete. I will be surprised if in a democratic setting
something is done and everybody is singing, something is wrong,” he said.
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