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  • PDP wants to foist one party system on Nigeria, alleges CNPP

    The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has said it views the Peoples Democratic Party’s (PDP’s) covert bid to register the African Peoples Congress (APC) as a bad omen for the country’s democracy.

    A statement signed by CNPP’s National Publicity Secretary, Osita Okechukwu, urged the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to resist the temptation of PDP’s covert move to register the African Peoples Congress, adding that prior to the February 6 date when the All Progressives Congress (APC) was formed, there was no such application with INEC.

    It said PDP’s intention to register African Peoples Congress “is ignoble, subversive and meant to forestall the registration of the authentic APC, based on the flimsy argument that both possess the same acronym.” CNPP said: “PDP’s intention is to foist a one-party system on Nigeria and rule for 60 years.

    “We challenge INEC to publish the names of the promoters of African Peoples Congress. INEC should also investigate the allegation that the proposed APC is being floated by the PDP to foist a one-party system on the country.”

    Former head of state and three-time presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, alleged that INEC was in a merger with PDP to do the latter’s bidding.

    He accused INEC of corruption, among others, adding that the electoral body had not accepted or refuted the allegation.

     

  • CNPP, ANPP to Obasanjo: You laid the foundation for Boko Haram

    CNPP, ANPP to Obasanjo: You laid the foundation for Boko Haram

    The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) and the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) yesterday said former President Olusegun Obasanjo should share in the blame for the Boko Haram insurgency.

    CNPP and ANPP in reacting to comments made by the ex-President on Cable Network News (CNN) said Obasanjo imposed Jonathan on Nigerians and should not complain.

    The CNPP National Publicity Secretary, Osita Okechukwu said: “Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is less than transparent in his assessment of the Boko Haram insurgency. In the first instance, he is culpable for laying the foundation which gave birth to the insurgency. All security reports, ranging from Ambassador Galtimari to internal report have identified poverty, mis-governance and corruption of the past decade.

    “Obasanjo cannot absolve himself from corruption which alienated the people, created mass poverty, despair and despondency in the land. He subverted the 1999 Constitution of Nigeria and allowed sham elections which were the bedrock of the ECOMOG, where Boko was mutated from.

    “We cannot forget how, because of third term, Obasanjo maintained cosy relationship with the former governor of Borno State Senator Ali Mudu Sherif who recruited ECOMOG to advance his rigging machine and how he fell out with their leader late Mohammed Yusuf. Sherif was in an unholy alliance with Obasanjo just like Senator Yerima of Zamfara, the author of Sharia politics. Obasanjo should assist President Goodluck Jonathan and not criticise him for he imposed him on Nigerians. We cannot forget he nominated a terminally sick man and hoped to control Jonathan. It is too late for him to cry out.”

    ANPP National Publicity Secretary, Hon. Emma Eneukwu, said: “It is not surprising to hear such comment from Obasanjo. After all the former security adviser to the president had once told the nation that Boko Haram sect is the handiwork of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Now Obasanjo has for the umpteenth time told the nation that the man he installed without consideration does not have the credential to fight Boko Haram. All these point to the fact that PDP has failed Nigerians woefully. They are bereft of ideas on how to unriddle the probs of the country.”

  • Jonathan’s posters: CNPP urges PDP not to fool Nigerians

    The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has urged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) not to fool Nigerians on President Goodluck Jonathan’s posters, “as everyone knows that he is running for a second term.”

    CNPP was reacting to the fuss generated by the President’s posters pasted on Abuja streets on New Year’s Day.

    In a statement signed by its National Publicity Secretary, Comrade Osita Okechukwu, it said: “We are making this assertion based on the truism that it is simpler for President Jonathan to say capital NO, if he is not running; rather than the tongue-in-cheek answer in the last presidential media chat, which in simplicita means he is running.

    “We need a break from the cacophony of voices emanating from the PDP on this issue, as we care less whether or not he has launched his campaign. All we demand is that there should be free, fair and transparent elections in 2015. Mr. President should not either covertly or overtly use his office to manipulate the electoral process.”

    The CNPP said it was only concerned with the protection of the inalienable right of “our dear countrymen and women to elect leaders of their choice in 2015. We are least concerned about who becomes the presidential candidate of the PDP. Therefore, the intra-party power tussle should not pollute our political landscape.”

    It said: “For those who engage in a do-or-die battle to win the PDP presidential ticket and rate it as an election before the election, we advise that they should forget such mundane thought; as the merger of the ACN, CPC, ANPP and other progressive forces will wipe out such hangover.

    “CNPP also demands the implementation of the recommendations of the Uwais Electoral Reform Committee report, as the Prof. Attahiru Jega-led Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) is requesting dictatorial powers to disqualify candidates, to muscle the opposition and cancel elections as it did in the 2011 National Assembly election.”

     

  • CNPP advises de-registered parties

    CNPP advises de-registered parties

    The Conference of Nigerian  Political Parties (CNPP) yesterday urged all the parties recently axed by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to join the ongoing merger plan of the ACN, CPC and ANPP .

    CNPP’s National Publicity Secretary, Mr Osita Okechukwu, who spoke in Abuja said that the conference supported the merger proposal.

    “CNPP is in support of the three political parties that are trying to merge and calls on those de-registered to join the merger plan.

    “We applaud the CPC, ACN and ANPP for trying to come together; this will enable them to form a united front,” he stated.

    Okechukwu urged the INEC’s National Chairman, Prof. Attahiru Jega, to “pay more attention to those things that can bring to bear, free and fair election in Nigeria”.

    “Government has stopped funding parties and so, they would find ways to sustain themselves,” he said.

    Okechukwu urged the INEC boss to pay more attention to the Uwais Electoral Reform since he (Jega) was a member of the committee.

    “He should pay attention to advance those courses recommended by the committee. We need free and fair election; if there is free and fair election, the political parties on their own will do their own internal censorship,” he said.