APC AND THE ROAD TO HARARE

Posted by Kelechi Jeff Eme | 10 years ago | 3,377 times



It is daily manifesting that the APC is being driven on a fast lane leading to Harare. This road to Harare is typified by effusions, unpreparedness, media reliance and localized selfishness in pursuit of power. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) led by Morgan Tvsangirai consolidated the fruitlessness of the Harare route to power. It did not work in Zimbabwe and will not work in Nigeria no matter what those infected with incurable optimism will want us to believe.

The APC has indirectly made President Jonathan a strong man from a position ordinariness and weakness. It is unbelievable that the president is running against a “Ghost” APC presidential candidate with a few months to the Presidential election. What is the party afraid of? How come the party is yet to advise interested members to raise their hands? Has the party resigned itself to the Harare highway of perpetual opposition politics?

The party leaders must understand that any attempt at imposing a last minute consensus presidential candidate on Nigerians will result in total landslide for the clueless PDP administration. The party members must consider the following in electing a presidential candidate to mount a serious challenge in 2015:

1.That a Muslim/Muslim ticket in which a northerner is at the head will lead to Harare.

2.That any ticket involving either of Buhari or Tinubu will lead to Harare.

3.No south western Presidential running mate can deliver the zone to APC irrespective of the Christian northerner at the head of the ticket.

4.The PDP has succeeded in painting the party as a Muslim/Northern party with the sole aim of returning power to the north. This has damaged the party in the entire south and among the northern minorities.

5.The party must understand that despite the anti Jonathan sentiment prevailing in the two upper northern regions, the ruling party has the capacity to score an average of 30-35% there. You cannot compete with the PDP if you are not sure of scoring an average of 30% in the south.

6. Only a southern Christian with national visibility, ability to generate resources, strong willed, evidence of previous positive performance in government and generally accepted as detribalized will have the capacity to challenge and defeat the incumbent.

The party must understand that perpetual opposition politics will not sustain it in Nigeria political setup.It can either follow the road to Harare and fizzle out like the MDC or embrace reality and win the presidency in 2015. It is better to plan and win the election than to cry after the election. NO ONE WILL LISTEN INCLUDING YOURS TRULY.


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