A foundational member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Osita Okechukwu, on Friday stated former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has proven that he belongs to the category of anti-democrats.
Okechukwu was reacting to Atiku’s interview with BBC Hausa Service the place he stated “if a youthful candidate emerges by a aggressive main election, he would assist and mentor such an individual.”
Addressing journalists in Abuja, Okechukwu argued that by elevating the so-called “aggressive main” above Nigeria’s cherished rotation and zoning conference, the fragile unity glue that has sustained the Fourth Republic since 1999, Atiku undermined a elementary pillar of the nation’s democracy.
He recalled that Atiku himself has been a direct beneficiary of zoning and rotation, however paradoxically led the marketing campaign in opposition to it in 2014, and received the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP, main the place no southern presidential aspirant contested.
Based on Okechukwu, discarding zoning in favour of “dollarised main” dressed up as democracy represents “the peak of anti-democratic conduct.”
Okechukwu stated: “Among the many cardinal tenets of democracy, the primary is the unity of our pricey fatherland, and the second is the conduct of free and honest elections.
“Atiku is now waving costly, monetised, and exclusionary primaries as his banner of democracy, whereas downplaying the very conference that ensures fairness, inclusion, and stability in our plural society.”
Okechukwu additional famous that Atiku’s pronouncement confirms long-standing fears that he seeks energy to not strengthen democratic establishments, however to erode the very rules that constructed the Nigerian venture.
