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Nigeria: AC Faults PDP Tour of China
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This Day (Lagos)
25 July 2008
Posted to the web 25 July 2008
Tunde Sanni
Ibadan
The Action Congress (AC) in the South-west Wednesday flayed the recent tour of the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party to China. It feared that the tour might have been a ploy to impose a one party system on the country.
The opposition party in a statement signed by Mr. Ayo Afolabi, the Director of Publicity described the tour as another undemocratic step of the ruling party to impose a one party system on the country.
The AC, therefore urged the Federal Government to allow democracy to thrive in the country.
The party reviewed the state of affairs in the zone and tasked the leadership of the AC in the South West not to relent in the struggle to wrest power from the grip of the ruling PDP in the five core South West states.
The party said that wresting power from the grip of the PDP was the only way to ensure the delivery of good governance to the people of the region.
The AC condemned the N20million constituency fund doled out to the Oyo State House of Assembly members by the State governor, Otunba Adebayo Alao-Akala and the level of profligacy of the PDP-led administration.
The party urged for dialogue and diplomacy by the Federal Government in resolving the Niger-Delta logjam rather than an all-out military engagement with the militants as being canvassed in certain quarters.
"The meeting condemned the decision of President Umaru Yar'Adua to seek help from the British government on the Niger Delta issue" and described the action as smacking of inability of Nigerians to solve their problems as brothers.
The AC objected to the outcome of the Osun state Election Petition Tribunal following widespread allegations of telephone romance between the counsel to the state governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola and some judges of the tribunal.
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It applauded the judiciary and observed that its forthrightness over the years has sustained the nascent democratic experiment but condemned some judges who have become willing tools in the hands of desperate politicians with dubious mandate.
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