Osita Okechukwu, a founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former Director-General of the Voice of Nigeria (VON), has assured Nigerians that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration will revitalise the economy and usher in national prosperity.
Speaking to newsmen in Abuja on Sunday, Okechukwu predicted that once the administration’s economic reforms are fully implemented, Nigerians will experience “Gross National Happiness.”
Assessing the crisis within the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), he blamed its decline from a major to a minor opposition force on internal impunity.
Expressing disappointment, Okechukwu recalled that with APC’s formation in 2013, he had envisioned fierce political competition between two strong parties—a hallmark of advanced democracies.
However, he dismissed concerns that APC would exploit PDP’s decline to establish a one-party system, emphasising that the ruling party has won past elections without resorting to such dominance.
He added: “What true democrats want is a formidable PDP which will act as checks and balances and catapult Nigeria to democratic maturity, not a weak coalition.
“In fact, one was in league with those who cried out, when PDP violently breached the rotation convention of president from north to south and vice versa, a toolkit conceived by patriots in 1999 for peace, unity, and good health of our democracy and dear country, and Section 7 of their constitution. The outcome is the disintegration of the party, for he who cultivated ill wind will surely reap whirlwind.” Okechukwu insisted.