WHAT MAKE DEMOCRACY STRONG AND EFFECTIVE IS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF OPPOSITION PARTIES HENCE IT MAKES THE RULING PARTY SIT TIGHT AND ALWAYS GIVES GOOD GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT A PRIORITY IN THEIR PROGRAMMES AND MANIFESTOES The only thing is that my own part of Nigeria is not used to opposition politics. I remember when we formed the PDP in 1998, we were few. We had Alex Ekwueme who was contesting presidential election then but a lot of the Igbos and all their billionaires were all in the All Peoples Party. Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu was in the APP, Arthur Nzeribe, Arthur Eze, Chris Uba and others including Evans Enwerem, Ifeanyi Ararume and a host of others. But immediately we won the presidency, they all drifted to the PDP and today, they are the champions in the PDP. But when we were toiling to register the party, they were all in the APP, they were not with us. We only had the late Chief Chuba Okadigbo, Chief Joseph Okonkwo, Alex Ekwueme, myself and a few others. It was after we won election in 18 local government areas of Anambra State that they identified with us, so the same thing will happen in the APC and we are waxing stronger and growing everyday. If our politicians in Igboland hear an announcement today that the APC had won the Presidential election, they will drift to the party. My people are not too used to being in the opposition party and we don’t have regrets for being where we are. I have played this opposition politics since 2005. ~ CHRIS NGIGE
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 12:59:19 +0000
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