STOP ADMITTING PDP DEFECTORS, CNPP CAUTIONS APC

Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) on Sunday called on the All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop further admission of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) decampees.
In a statement through its spokesman, Osita Okechukwu, CNPP said it was making the clarion call in the collective interest of the country, so as to forestall the return of one party system and consequently absolute powers post 2015 general elections.
While admitting that it is very tempting to give unfettered admission to political decampees from other political parties, CNPP called on APC to stop forthwith further admission of PDP decampees.
The statement reads: “We are making this clarion call in the collective interest of our dear fatherland, so as to forestall the return of one party system and consequently absolute powers post 2015 general elections.
“For we cannot forget in a hurry the granite saying of Lord Acton that power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely, as evidenced by the imperial posture of the PDP led Federal Government in the last 14 years, which stifled political and economic growth.
“CNPP remembers with nostalgia the nationwide jubilation which heralded the registration of the APC on 1 July 2013 by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), jubilation predicated on the birth of a broad based alternative political party to the PDP”, it stated.
CNPP noted that it had fervently prayed for Nigerian democracy to attain the zenith of liberal democracy, where two dominant political parties and compromise prevail or where no political party will win two thirds of the seats in the National or State Assembles and where no party wins the presidential election with more than 53 per cent of the votes cast.
Source: Daily Independent