BY CHUKWUMA NNAM
Former Chairman of the Independent Electoral Commission of Nigeria ( INEC), Professor Attahiru Jega has urged Nigerians not to vote for neither the ruling All Progressives Congress ( APC) nor the Peoples Democratic Party( PDP) in the 2023 general elections.
According to the former INEC umpire, the two political parties have been tested and confirmed that are unable to bring the desired growth and development in Nigeria within the past 20 years.
”The two major political parties are like Siamese twins 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 posited.
“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 Nigeria.”
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.
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He said that was why “it has now become imperative to have a new platform where good Nigerians will constitute the membership.”
” 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.
