The National Secretary of Action Democratic Party (ADP), Dr James Okoroma has explained why the party did not sign the Memorandum of understanding (MoU) between PDP and 38 other political parties to form a grand alliance to unseat the APC,
Speaking with DAILY POST in Calabar, Dr Okoroma said the party was still studying the situations of things.
“When the coalition started, a technical committee was formed, I was made a member of that committee, former External Affairs Minister, Chief Tom Ikimi was the Chairman, Kema Chikwe, Gabriel Suswan, former governor of Benue, former governor of Cross River State, Senator Liyel Imoke were all members of the committee.
“But we have also taken a second look at the whole thing. We believe that PDP hasn’t done well as a political party, they got us to where we are, they had 16 years of uninterrupted democracy under their leadership, they brought the country down. In every sector of the economy, health, infrastructures, everything went down.
“We thought we were getting out of that situation when we brought a man without an agenda, a man who has no business of being in government, President Mohammed Buhari. He has left the country more divided than what it was and we are almost losing our country.
“President Buhari has not done any concrete thing for the country, point out one thing he has done in three years. Jonathan started the East-West road, Jonathan started the 2nd bridge across the Niger, all the rail lines, Jonathan initiated them, and Jonathan established the 12 Federal Universities.
“He only came to establish conflict in Nigeria. He has turned the country into the theatre of war, bloodletting, reducing the value of human lives and making life the cheapest community, and Nigerians can’t sleep with their two eyes closed,” he explained.
“PDP and APC are two sides of the same coin, that is our consideration for now. And that is not to say, we will not join forces with other progressives to move the country forward, we are doing that. There will be another MoU to be led by former President, Chief Obasanjo, we are also working with him”.
He said, “We didn’t sign that agreement/MOU. I was supposed to sign it on behalf of the Party but I was here (Calabar, Cross River State), we are in touch with all progressives to change the situation in our country. PDP and APC are not alternative to our country’s problem, unless Nigeria wants to go back to Egypt,” he added.
Consequently, on the structure of the party in Cross River State, Dr Okoromo said, “We have no parallel structure in Cross River State, we have Dr Vincent Tawo Ebu as our authentic state Chairman, Engineer Patrick Ngom is not our state Chairman and he should stop parading himself as chairman.
“We came to look at the party’s structures in the State as well as meet with some of the leaders of the Party and then be able to establish the true situation of things because Cross River State is very important to us.
“Some of the leaders from here are getting in touch with us and that they can’t see the party on ground. So I am here for an independent assessment of the situation on ground.”
He urged the leadership to sit up, “Nobody would give you power, you have to take power because it is a generational challenge, if you have a platform, you must use it well.
“We had leadership problems in Ebonyi State where we have four Chairmen, each with a good secretariat, we have just resolved that and integrated everybody and we now have a single well streamlined and defined leadership structure. “We had a similar problem in Benue and the former Vice-Chancellor is the state chairman of the party and we had the same problem in Rivers and it is still on,” he recalled.
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