YPP Replies Garba Shehu, Says It Will Take APC More Than Rigging To Win In 2023

 

Nobody under the harsh socio-economic and political conditions in Nigeria caused by the misgovernance of APC in the last six years will take anything coming from Garba Shehu seriously. It's sad that with all the challenges confronting the nation, the inept government of President Buhari will still be contemplating 2023 when they should be busy engaging critical stakeholders and devising better ways of managing our diversity, which they have failed to properly manage due to their policy of exclusion.

President Buhari led APC has succeeded in building a reputation as the most divisive, nepotic and dictatorial leadership to have ruled Nigeria and cannot win any transparently conducted election in any part of this country, hence their anti-democratic position on the electronic transmission of election results in the ongoing amendment to the electoral act.

The APC may continue to live under the false illusion that it is still popular with the people having succeeded in banning peaceful protests, gagging the media and shrinking the civic space but the actual truth is that they have made the lives of Nigerians more miserable than any government have managed to achieve since independence. It will take more than rigging an election for APC to win in 2023. Even if they succeeded in rigging, the collective will to end tyranny will ensure massive participation in the electoral process that will overwhelm the government and make rigging useless.

The PDP is also not exempted because their misgovernance in 16 years laid the faulty foundation and gave birth to the APC. More so, events in the last few years have also suggested that there is no clear cut difference between both parties as evidenced by the intermittent decamping between both, which has now become a daily ritual. Nigerians are wiser now and they know that only a radical departure from the past as represented by the APC and PDP can salvage the nation.

Signed:

Comrade Egbeola Wale Martins

National Publicity Secretary

Young Progressives Party 

nps@ypp.ng