Daily Independent (Lagos)
Olisemeka Obeche
11 November 2008
Lagos — Lagos State chapter of the Action Congress (AC) has warned that democracy in its true sense will remain a mirage in the country, if the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) refuses to reform itself and make redresses for its anti-democratic antics since assuming power in 1999.
The AC said the PDP, as presently constituted, is not capable of advancing the nation's democratic institutions, unless it purge itself of "do-or-die politics", which it has imposed on the country for the past nine years.
AC in a media statement, signed by its Lagos State Publicity Secretary, Joe Igbokwe, said PDP's posturing up to the moment, has clearly shown that it has become set in its undemocratic penchants.
"Even when all hoped the PDP will learn from the US election, it is demonstrating obvious symptoms of incorrigibility, finding culprits elsewhere for its many sins.
"Even the absurd mockery, to which democracy has been reduced in Nigeria, does not elicit any form of concern from the PDP. The party is still dreaming of ruling the country for 60 more years, through bizarre manipulations and electoral robbery, which same treatment, Nigeria has been experiencing in 2003 and 2007.
"The PDP believes that by continuously defending those daylight electoral robberies, it would later come to convince those that witnessed those deliberate scams that they never happened".
Speaking further, the AC spokesman enjoined Nigerians to mobilise against the duplicity and insincerity of the PDP, if the country must make any meaningful progress.
"At this critical turn of our national history, Nigerians must rise to demand for a just and fair polity, free from the many negative influences the PDP has introduced to taint democracy and governance in the country.
"We must put an end to the PDP's impediment to the progress and development of the country," he said.
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