Former President Olusegun
Obasanjo and his party, the African Democratic Congress (ADC), have opened up
on their request to state governors and federal lawmakers.
National Chairman of ADC, Okey
Nwosu, made the disclosure in an interview with Thisday.
He said the party, in its
invitation letter to the bigwigs, demanded that they move their structures and
grassroot followers into the ADC.
Using the word “adapt”, he said
once the governors and lawmakers were ready to do that, the party would welcome
them.
His words: “We have sent letters
to governors, senators, members of the House of Representatives, and if they
can adapt to ADC ways, we will receive them.
“We are a grassroots party and
that is where our strength lies. We have always had a challenge of not having
enough resources to show what we are capable of doing.
“Even in some places where we
have won elections, the people in government tend to take the powerful
influence of state structures to take the victories away. But I think with the
influx of influential personalities that situation will end.
“The biggest assets of the party
are the young people and women, not the kind big men Nigerians were used to.
Almost everybody in Nigeria is not happy with the way the country is going.
“And if Obasanjo, Babangida, Danjuma, the
bishops, and the religious leaders, both Christian and Moslem, have said that
enough is enough, and have come to identify with a party that can properly
package the polity and address issues of nation-building, we must be taken
seriously.”
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