Nigeria: APC Vehicle Needs Gas Now!

opinion

Since February 6, 2015 when the All Progressives Congress was formed following the merger of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and elements of the New PDP as a vehicle for wresting power from the Jonathan-led government of the PDP, the APC has remained what it was at the beginning -just a vehicle. All hopes that it would transform itself to a vibrant political party with solid social democratic credentials are fizzling by the day as the original merging camps refuse to lose their identity, resisting the political alchemy that would have dissolved the various tendencies into one. Now the falcon faces one direction, the falconer another.

APC was swept to presidential victory on the wings of change. Capitalising on the ineptitude of the former administration made more odious by the unprecedented level of treasury looting, the then opposition party promised to run an accountable government with the fear of God, preserve national unity, work towards an egalitarian society, build strong institutions, ensure social and economic justice and promote participatory democracy.

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