Alhaji Musa, who is remembered as one of the few Second Republic governors who did not amass wealth for himself, identified ideological differences for being the hurdle. The ex-governor was speaking on Friday at the Kaduna State Congress of the National Conscience Party (NCP). He said it was a fact that the ruling PDP has be forced out of power by 2015 and would require a strong opposition force to oust it, but that the current composition of the APC is not a good alternative for that purpose. "This makes us think that there may be need for a third force, which is not also healthy for Nigeria," he said. "For instance we can think of a third force by credible parties, led for example, by the Labour Party. But I do not want that. I do not like that we have a third force because it may make it difficult to force out the PDP. But we cannot join APC because we cannot sacrifice our ideology and what we stand for." The former PRP chieftain praised the liberty being enjoyed by political parties in the country today as the product of one of the legal battles fought by late human rights crusader, Chief Gani Fawehinmi, who also founded the NCP. He said the party deserved support rather than neglect, which was his reason for working in solidarity with it during its Kaduna State congress. In a similarly remark during an earlier congress of the party in Ogun State, the National Chairman of the Party, Mr. Yunusa Tanko, also said it would amount to an unholy alliance to sacrifice the ideology upon which the party is built for a merger with parties whose objectives would not liberate the masses in the end. "For instance, NCP is the only party where you could contest for free,” he said. That is part of our ideology; to give the platform for free to citizens so they can represent their people in government.” He drew a parallel with other political parties which as much as demand N10m from potential candidates. “If you contest and win, you will not be able to represent the interest of your people rather you will want to recoup the N10m first and then enrich yourself." At the congress in Kaduna on Friday, the NCP inaugurated new party executives for the State in an open election, and the National Chairman tasked them to keep the interest of the masses at heart just as the party had given its platform to them for free electoral contests to represent their people.
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 11:14:18 +0000
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