Leading Nigerian opposition figures on Thursday stepped up the marketing of their newly-christened joint party, the All Progressive Party, APC, with a promise that the new platform would bring an end to the rule of the Peoples Democratic Party.
National Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria, a key component of the new alliance, Bola Tinubu, described the years of PDP in power as the rule of “scavengers and wayfarers.”
“What we have now are wayfarers, scavengers in the corridors of power and apologists, professionals whose ethics evaporate the moment they come in contact with the paraphernalia of power.
“But there is help coming. Help is on the way as the opposition moves to form a broad-based coalition that will send these characters out of power and put into gear the Nigerian project.”
Another key figure in the new political dispensation and an ex-Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, also enjoined Nigerians to give the APC, an identity unveiled just on Wednesday, the opportunity to prove itself in rescuing the nation from those he called “strong men” that had damaged the system.
Tinubu and Buhari spoke in Abuja at the public presentation of a book, The Accidental Public Servant, written by a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.
Tinubu said the sorry state of many Nigerians had not changed from what it was during the time el-Rufai was in government but the situation had worsened with the citizens saddled with a government concerned more about “elongation in power and fighting imagined enemies.”
He said, “Thanks to [el-Rufai's book], we now know that most of our leaders are soon overcome and consumed by their unbridled lust for power. Nasir tells us Nigeria still has a long way to go and the architects of a new Nigeria are not yet in place.”
“But there is help coming. Help is on the way as the opposition moves to form a broad-based coalition that will send these characters out of power and put into gear the Nigerian project.”
Another key figure in the new political dispensation and an ex-Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, also enjoined Nigerians to give the APC, an identity unveiled just on Wednesday, the opportunity to prove itself in rescuing the nation from those he called “strong men” that had damaged the system.
Tinubu and Buhari spoke in Abuja at the public presentation of a book, The Accidental Public Servant, written by a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Mallam Nasir el-Rufai.
Tinubu said the sorry state of many Nigerians had not changed from what it was during the time el-Rufai was in government but the situation had worsened with the citizens saddled with a government concerned more about “elongation in power and fighting imagined enemies.”
He said, “Thanks to [el-Rufai's book], we now know that most of our leaders are soon overcome and consumed by their unbridled lust for power. Nasir tells us Nigeria still has a long way to go and the architects of a new Nigeria are not yet in place.”
