The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress Governors’ Forum, Rochas
Okorocha, has urged the party to stop the culture of imposition of candidates
in order to move ahead of the competition.
Okorocha said this in his remarks at the 1st Progressive
Governors-Legislative-Civil Society Roundtable in Abuja, on Monday.
The roundtable was tagged ‘Improving Governance through
transparent budgeting, accountability and effective public financial
management.’ The Imo State governor, who said he was aligning himself to
comments made by a previous speaker, said the 2015 general election was for the
APC to win or lose.
According to him, the outcome of the recent opinion polls conducted by
APC’s foreign consultant is a true reflection of what is on ground, noting that
for the APC to form the government in 2015, it must do things differently.
Okorocha said, “Our victory is in our hands, it is left for us to make
it or mar it but I believe we can make it. I believe that this issue of
imposition of candidates must stop in APC and that is the only way.
“The masses know us better, when they say this is the candidate that can
win the election he is the candidate let there be liberal democracy.
“If we keep doing the same old things the same old way, we will get the
very same results.”
Senator Olusola Adeyeye, at the forum, said when the APC formed the
government at the federal level, it would reintroduce tolls along major
highways to generate the required revenue to maintain the roads.
He explained that just as the government had responsibility to the
people, the people equally had civic responsibilities to perform.
While making a case for true federalism, he said states must be allowed
to develop at their pace.
“Why must the governor of the oil rich Rivers and the revenue rich
Lagos, earn the same salary and allowances with the governors of Osun and
Gombe?” he asked.
Adeyeye also explained that Nigerians must begin to take ownership of
their country and government. This partnership, he explained, would ensure
progress for the nation.
He said it was no longer the practice in most parts of the world to
leave everything to the government alone because there were contending needs to
be met, especially in the area of infrastructural development.
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