2019: PRP Wants Nigeria Rescued From Bad Leadership

By Steve Oni, Ilorin
People’s Redemption Party (PRP) has asked intellectuals in the country to join the party in rescuing the nation from bad governance.
Chairman of the party in Kwara state, Professor Mahmud Aliyu who made the call at a press conference in Ilorin said the country had suffered bad governance since 1999 because both Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and All Progressives Congress (APC) have provided inept leadership.
He said that while PDP was accused of running a government in which corruption, economic hardship and insecurity prevailed, the APC that took over had not been anything different as the situation remained the same under the party-led government.
Aliyu said that contrary to the change the APC promised, what is being witnessed now is a cosmetic change that did not address the root causes of the problems affecting development of the country.
He said there was need for eggheads who are patriotic Nigerians to come together and rescue the country from bad leadership by 2019.
He said: “Let us break the vicious circle of being governed /led by semi illiterates, half educated, break the vicious circle of inept leadership and people that hardly acquired secondary school education successfully to become local champions and twisting us the way they want. We have been turned to the nation of the blinds who can only be led by one eyed man.
“I, therefore, wish to call on my learned friends and educated colleagues as well as other well-meaning Nigerians to brace up to the occasion and pull our God-given resources (knowledge and wisdom) together and rescue this country and its masses from the grip of its internal colonizers and our local imperialists.
“The era of sitting on the fence and the era of ‘sit-down look’ is over. Let us pick up the courage and reclaim our freedom, God-given resources and be able to determine our destiny by ourselves”, he added.
Aliyu who said that both the PDP and APC did not have a clear-cut ideology said the PRP with its social welfare inclination is the only party that can rescue the country from problem of bad governance.
He said the PRP, since its establishment decades ago, had been committed to its five basic principles of the value and equality of human beings, power to the people, socialism, genuine federation, and total liberation from imperialism.