news-flash back -------------- ----------APC woos Amaechi, Lamido, Wamakko, others------------------- Opposition party expresses worry over PDP’s inability deliver democracy dividends to Nigerian. The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said on Thursday it was ready to receive the seven aggrieved Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governors into its fold. The National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Lai Mohammed who stated this in Abuja after a meeting of the party’s National Working Committee, NWC, said its (APC) governors had been given the assignment of wooing their aggrieved PDP counterparts since all of them belong to a faction of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, NGF. The PDP governors, who recently joined other senior members of the ruling party to float the “New” PDP, are Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Rabiu Kwankwaso (Kano), Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara), Aliyu Babangida (Niger) and Sule Lamido (Jigawa). They also formed a parallel national working committee headed by Kawu Baraje, a former acting National Chairman of the PDP. Mr Mohammed sai d APC doors were open to any of the PDP governors willing to dump the ruling party. He said, “It isn’t a matter you discuss at executive meeting but I know that what the party resolved is that since our governors are also members of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum, and they also meet regularly with these other governors we have left that assignment in the hands of our governors– that if and when the aggrieved governors of the PDP, when they are desirous of making contact with the party they should do so through our governors.” Asked to comment on Wednesday’s sack of nine ministers by President Goodluck Jonathan and the insinuation that ministers from the states of the aggrieved governors were the target, the APC spokesman said what was bothering Nigerians was government’s incapacity to address their needs. “Is it by simple coincidence that most of those who were relieved of their positions were those seemed to be perceived opponents of Mr. President, or who have close contact with the the new PDP, or is the g ame about 2015,” he said. “But I don’t think Nigerians are really worried or impressed about whether ministers have been sacked or not. What I think bothers Nigerians today is the lack of vision, or lack of capacity of this government. “You see, there are three things you must always ask about any government. What has happened to poverty under that government? What has happened to unemployment under that government? What has happened to socio-economic inequality? “Once the answers to those three questions are zero– in other words, you still have poverty around, you still have unemployment around, you still have socio-economic inequality around then that government hasn’t performed. “So, what Nigerians are interested in is a government that will put food on their table, find jobs for their children and secure their lives from robbers.”
Posted on: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 16:47:50 +0000
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