The All Progressive Congress (APC) has come out to say that the Nov. 16 governorship polls in Bayelsa State will be violence-free.
The party leaders, at a recent rally in Yenagoa, begged the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bayelsa to stay away from actions that can result in disaffections during and after the election.
APC Chairman, Mr Adams Oshiomhole feels a violence-free election is vital to promote Nigeria’s democracy.
His words, ”I want to let the PDP government know that this governorship election will not be by bullet but by voting.
“We know the PDP is already panicking but why won’t the paty members panic because the man like lion is coming to take over.
“I must tell you the PDP years of mismanagement has come to an end.
”This is the time to say no to one man one show of PDP led-administration in Bayelsa.”
APC’s governorship candidate, David Lyon also had this to say, “I have seen the yearning of my people and I must assured the people of Bayelsa that I will not fail them.
“All you have to do is to vote for the APC and every people in the state will enjoy dividend of democracy.
”Bayelsa will see light, Bsyelsa will see development and empowerment.”
Do you believe this?
The All Progressives Congress (APC) is a political party in Nigeria, formed on 6 February 2013 in anticipation of the 2015 elections. APC candidate Muhammadu Buhari won the presidential election by almost 2.6 million votes. Incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan conceded defeat on 31 March. This was the first time in Nigeria’s political history that an opposition political party unseated a governing party in a general election and one in which power transferred peacefully from one political party to another. In addition, the APC won the majority of seats in the Senate and the House of Representatives in the 2015 elections, though it fell shy of winning a super-majority to override the ability of the opposition People’s Democratic Party to block legislation.
Formed in February 2013, the party is the result of a merger of Nigeria’s three biggest opposition parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the new PDP – a faction of then ruling People’s Democratic Party. The resolution was signed by Tom Ikimi, who represented the ACN; Senator Annie Okonkwo on behalf of the APGA; Ibrahim Shekarau, the Chairman of ANPP’s Merger Committee; and Garba Shehu, the Chairman of CPC’s Merger Committee. Ironically, less than 2 years before the party’s historic victory in the 2015 elections, Messrs. Annie Okonkwo, Tom Ikimi and Ibrahim Shekarau resigned from the party and joined the PDP.
The APC is generally considered to be a centre-left political party that favors controlled market economic policies, and a strong and active role for government regulation. A substantial number of its political leaders are followers of or politicians who subscribe to the social democratic political philosophy of Obafemi Awolowo and the socialist and anti-class views of Aminu Kano. Moreover, the majority of the APC’s base of political support is in southwestern Nigeria and Northern Nigeria, which are dominated by the country’s largest ethnic groups, the Yoruba and the Hausa-Fulani, respectively.
The APC support state’s rights, advancing state police as part of its manifesto. Its social policy is a combination of social nationalism. Despite the parties’ domination by pro-devolution politicians like Atiku Abubakar, Bola Tinubu and Chief Bisi Akande, the party’s presidential bearer and the CPC wing is less inclined to federalism.
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