A chieftain of the newly registered All
Progressives Congress (APC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, has charged members of the
party to strive harder to achieve the ultimate goal of dislodging the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP) from power.
Ribadu, who joined other Nigerians in
expressing happiness over the emergence of the major opposition party, in a
statement in Abuja, congratulated key players “for shoving their personal
interests, in order to allow for mutation of a pan-Nigerian party that can
provide credible alternative to the ruling party.”
The statement, issued by his media aide,
Abdulaziz Abdulaziz, quoted the 2011 presidential candidate of the Action
Congress of Nigeria (ACN) as expressing hope that the new party would have
sweeping victory in the next general election.
According to him, the registration of the
party by the electoral body “is not the end. It is the beginning of the end of
misrule and cluelessness,” as he called for renewed zeal and commitment by
members of the party to achieve the desired objective.
He called on Nigerians
to resist manipulations of the electoral process, either through whipping up of
religious or sectional sentiments or by the use of money, maintaining that 2015
general election would be a major litmus test for the opposition and all
progressive Nigerians.
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