Apc as a political party, is faced with some myraids of challenges, ranging From poor leadership and her internal crisis that has bedeviled the once acclaimed united party. The overt challenges that has marred party discipline and lack of internal democracy, is a yardstick to make apc as a political party to lose any future election. Party politics, is sacrosant in enabling any political party to conduct a free and credible party primary election in chosen a popular candidate that is highly acceptable by the electorates. All politics remained local. Therefore, the chances for winning any rancor free Democratic elections, is sufficiently depended on grassroot mobilization of the electorates who forms the alpha and omega for a visible democratic elections. We all know that our nascent democracy, is crumbling in each blessed day that passes by. These happens due to the fact that the electorates has finally lost hope with the electoral process that produces any candidates. Starting from the pre-election process to the post election periods where our political judges now assumes the democratic responsibility of the electorates through kangaroo judicial judgment delivered to the highest bidder. If every elections is a process, therefore, democratic tendencies should be our watchdog.the overall power in electing any candidates for any elective positions in governance is voting democracy. We must protect our voting powers if we must get it right.
Five reasons apc will lose Edo state governor shop election, are as follows :
(1)godfatherism factor:these factor has caused alot of collateral damage to or nascent democracy. A situation where the powers of the electorates to choose who govern them, has been dashed to the corner, we will never get it right. Looking at the case of apc embarrassed fmr chairman, comrade Adam oshiomole who wants to reprecate apc acclaimed national leader, Bola Timubu in Edo state, will spill nothing but a political doom for the apc comes on 19th September 2020.reasons been that the electorates are wisely fedup with this issues of political godfatherism that has dominated our political space for the past two decades now. These alone, is a grave yardstick that can weekened the chances of apc from emerging victoriously come on Saturday. Therefore, no political bigwigs should aportion any forms of political blames to the apc newly formed caretaker committee ably led by malam buni.
(2)control of state resources :no state can evidently boost of any visible development where states resources are apparently mismanaged by few individuals who denied the people the essential rights for the dividends of democracy through social amenities. Politics of share the money to the political elite and impoverished the masses, is fast going into oblivion. Intelligent politicians are fast recognizing the powers. Of the electorates in choosen their political leaders. As such, they refused to share the money to some group of the political elite whose electoral votes only amount to just 3 percent in their respective states and fellow the voice of the electorates with the power to elect and un-elect any political candidates of their choices.. Edo people knows who is their true leader. An acclaimed leader who comes publicly on a national TV to say that his only reason not allowing a sitting governor to complete his two tenure in office,simply because he the governor refused to continue from his failed legacies of sharing money to the big party faithfulS. He never said the current governor has performed abysmally poor in the area of infrastructral development, nor refuses to attract any meaningful development to his state. In this regard, the governor is on the side of the people of Edo state for his refusal to share state revenue to some group of individuals against the overall interest of his people who collectively elected him into office as the executive governor of the state. With this point, Edo electorates will vote against apc candidate come Saturday!
(3)Apc governorship primaries that produced pastor Izu iyamu :the apc primary election that produced pastor Izu Iyamu, was a subject for a public discission on failed party internal democracy. Atleast, we all saw what happened during the apc primary that attracted public pity to the present candidate of the pdp in the person of Goodwin obasike how he was unjustly disqualified from the governorship primary screening which obvious reasons was to render him into a political dilemma. The pitiable situations that occasioned with that bad treatment given to the incumbent governor which cut across political divides and gracefully adopted by the pdp, won him more popularity against his political rivals. These alone,made the people of Edo state to stand with him and give him victory come Saturday guber election in Edo state.
(4)Aimed forces presence and intimidations:look here ladies and gentlmen, the people of Niger deltas, are never in any form exhibit some forms of cowardice in a naked face of intimidations from any federal government. For example, rivers state govwrnorship election, akwa ibom state govwenorship election, cross river state governorship election, Bayelsa state governorship etc. The various states never allowed federal might to imtimidate them. Senator Godswill Akpabio tried with all his federal might, it caused him a set back for his re-election back to the senate. Hon. Rotimi Amaechi tried with all his federal might, pdp still won the elections. For the obvious fact Adams oshiomole is now using aimedforces to imtimidate Edo electorates in order not to come out in mass to cast their vote of confidence to their preferred candidates, will make the people of Edo state to come out in mass to cast their vote for the pdp candidate comes Saturday. Niger deltans loves flexing powers in a physical combat. They are fearless, they hate imtimidation whatsoever, they hate to hear that words"federal might! Pdp all the way come 19th Saturday 2020.
(5)Tinubu, s influence :Tinubu is a big political heavy weight when it comes to politics in the southwest. Now listen, the name Bola Tinubu, has became a political nightmares across other region in Nigeria. Reasons been that, many people believed he Tinubu is trying to over rich his political boundaries by overriding every democratic ethos in installing his political cronies or stooges for the anticipation of his 2020 presidential ambition. As such, many regions in the Nigeria political space has ganged up against him, therefore, making the Nigerian electorates sees him as a political godfather that have the monopoly of power to select who leads lagosian without any objections whatsoever. Now, the people are wise. He tried to install his stooge in ondo state, the people of ondo state rejected him and his candidate. He also tried same in Ekiti state, him and his preferred candidate was rejected, and dejected by the electorates. He tried same in oshun state, he was rejected too if not for the partial nature exhibited by the INEC state electoral commissioner, the result would have been same. He also flexed power in oyo state where he unilaterarily handpicked apc candidate and imposed it to the apc party faithfuls in that state and was collectively rejected by the people of oyo state who massively voted for seyi makinde of peoples democratic party. If he Tinubu can be rejected by his people in the south-west region who have vowed not to be associated with his name and what it stands for in politics. Which is godfatherism and autocratic personality in a new political dispensation, what this means , is that Tinubu's electoral values is fast diminishing day by day. Having said this, it becomes glaringly unavoidable to say that his media broadcast against governor obasike, will slimwdown the chances of the apc candidate to win Edo state guber election come Saturday 19th 2020.
The beauty of any democracy, shines on the glory of the electorates who have mastered the choice to chose their leaders through their political conscience.
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