For their alleged failure to bring the desired growth and
development in Nigeria within the past 20 years, a university don and former
Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria ( INEC), Professor
Attahiru Muhammad Jega has urged Nigerians not to vote for the ruling All
Progressives Congress ( APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) henceforth.
He alleged that the two major political parties were like
Siamese twin and it was high time Nigerians look for a credible alternative.
” Nigerians should dump the two parties because of their bad
antecedents over the last 20 years. Looking at their inability to change the
economic fortunes of Nigeria for 20 years now, it is now apparently clear that
they would not do anything even if Nigerians vote for any of the two parties
again,”he alleged.
Speaking in an interview with the BBC Hausa monitored by our correspondent in Kaduna, Jega explained that ” the bad things these parties committed in those past years, Nigerians should never give their trust to the parties again. It is now very clear that these parties would never change, even if they are given another chance.”
“The APC and PDP have formed governments, we were all
witnesses. They did not come with a good intention to make amends. If you look
at the fight against corruption, all these corrupt people that were supposed to
be prosecuted sneaked into the APC.”
“We are hearing nothing. That is why I’ve since registered
with the Peoples Redemption Party( PRP). I am now a PRP member looking for ways
to help the Nigeria.”
” That is why we believe now is the time to establish a
platform where every good Nigerian should join and contribute towards building
the nation on the right path,” he said.
He alleged that those in the major political parties have
destroyed everything and had made the parties so stigmatized that whichever
good person joins the parties would be considered like them.
He said that was why “it has now become imperative to have a
new platform where good Nigerians will constitute the membership.”
Jega also alleged that it was lack of good leadership in
Nigeria that threw the nation into it current problems, which have led to the
series of agitations for the country to be balkanized.
” Since 1979 I’ve been teaching in the university, for 40
years now. So, from what I read and observed, when I was Chairman of INEC,
honestly the way I see our politicians conducting elections and from the manner
they represent their people when elected, honestly it is something to be afraid
of,” he said.
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