Before We Swallow This APC

[Shola Sholaz]

At the sixth edition of her Town Hall meeting, the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, senator representing Lagos Central Senatorial District, the immediate past First Lady of Lagos State and wife of the national leader of the ACN, Mrs.
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OluremiTinubu asserted that the formation of All Progressives Congress, APC, is a divine opportunity to save the country (Daily Sun Tuesday 19 March 2013).
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Her rather hifalutin thesis rested on her claim that APC is "a broad coalition of progressively minded politicians on a mission to rescue Nigeria from the present slow pace of development".
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This article does not intend to interrogate her definition of "progressively minded politicians" But so far, suffice to say that by their conducts we shall know them!
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It is the usual political game the world over for the opposition to find faults with the policies of a ruling party and try to catch votes by blaming a ruling party for everything wrong in the country.
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In Nigeria's case, because we have had a history of dominant political parties the opposition has often assumed a holier-than-thou posture to exploit the gullibility of the electorate by casting the ruling party as the devil.