NGF chair: Don’t view Amaechi’s re-election as personal loss, CNPP advises Jonathan

The Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) has advised and cautioned President Goodluck Jonathan not to view Governor Rotimi Amaechi’s re-election and victory as the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) as a personal loss.
CNPP National Publicity Secretary Mr Osita Okechukwu, who reacted to the victory of Amaechi yesterday, described the development as the triumph of true democracy, the signs of good omen for our fledgling democracy and a harbinger for the 2015 general elections.
The coalition group for political parties congratulated the Rivers State Governor and the 19 governors who voted for him, advising that “as a statesman and democrat, Mr President should recognize and accept the outcome of last Friday’s election of the Nigeria Governors Forum’.
“He should not pander to the whims and caprices of bad losers, because of the collective interest of our dear country, and our fledgling democracy; especially now that he had secured Nigeria’s candidature, as Africa’s sole candidate for the UN Security Council”.
Osita said “Governor Amaechi’s victory is All Progressives Congress {APC}’s merger at work. The Peoples Democratic Party {PDP} for the first time has been beaten in their own game. Mr Fix-It and all other con-artists, failed after exhausting their bags of trick.
“This means in simplicita that the latent and potent progressive forces and tendencies which coalesced to form the APC; were at work during the Amaechi’s victory at the Nigeria Governors Forum’s election.
“For the avoidance of doubt, 11 out of the 19 Governors who voted for Amaechi are the potent progressive forces currently in the APC, while 8 are the latent progressive forces coming into the APC sooner than later.
“It is a good day for Nigerian democracy; as we exit from the Chief Olusegun Obasanjo’s, African-Big-Man,  Do-or-Die Era anchored on arbitrariness under One Party State to a Bi-Partisan Era anchored on responsive and responsible governance under two dominant political parties”.
He added that “a cursory glance at successful liberal democracies shows that their constitution provides for multi-parties, while their polity is governed by two dominant political parties, where no party actually rules.
“What rules is the people, their preferences and their tendencies; because the two dominant political parties provide compromise and clear choices in every issue where there is no national consensus.
“This is the first sign-post and the threshold we have earnestly yearned for in Nigeria, a stage where there is no African-Big-Man to dictate and where none of the two dominant political parties can win the presidential election with more than 52%”.



Sunday trust