National Chairman, Engr. Yusuf Yabagi Sani, spoke with
newsmen yesterday in Abuja at the party’s national secretariat after its
National Executive Committee’s meeting.
“We are prepared for the coming elections. Even before the
INEC Chairman said the commission was prepared for the election, we were
prepared; our members in various states are just waiting patiently for this
day, registration and collection of our certificate of registration, which has
come’’, he said.
“Believe you me we are ready because Nigerians are ready for
the real change and not the cosmetic change that you have been seeing that have
plunged us into what we are seeing today.
“We believe that all Nigerians have been waiting for us and
this is the beginning the journey to greatness, a great nation, a safe place
where you can live anywhere and do business anywhere. In Anambra State
governorship election and other elections that are coming, you will see
wonders”, he added.
Sani said the party would not allow impunity to grow and
destroy it like it did to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and is now doing
to the APC.
“Political parties as institutions have been taken for granted.
Before we thought it was just a platform that people can use to run for an
election but parties like APC and PDP are destroying the principles of
political parties”.
“We have realized that it is unthinkable to talk about
democracy without talking of political parties. Which means that political
parties have the responsibility to make sure that democracy is entrenched and
managed professionally.
“You don’t leave political parties in the hands of lame men
or dropouts. Educated and enlightened people should manage political parties
because whatever they do affects everybody. Let all Nigerians come together to
rescue Nigeria”, he stated.
By Wale Odunsi
