THE IGBO GIANT STRIDES AGAINST ALL ODDS
9 years ago
Nigeria Voters Assembly has warned that the plan by President Goodluck Jonathan to increase prices of petroleum products may precipitate a revolution against the leadership.
The president had indicated at the economic summit in Lagos last week that prices of petroleum products might soon increase.
Voters Assembly, in a statement on Monday by its National President and Convener, Moshood Erubami, said, “Nigeria will rise peacefully to shoot down any move to increase their misery and poverty through another regime of deceptive petrol subsidy removal, in a sense that will make the January 2012 anti-subsidy removal protests a child’s play.
“The recent exposure of the real cabals, who have been living on subsidy as parasites and the quantum of petrol naira that have been personalised and pocketed has made it quite evident that past regime of Nigerian oil subsidy removal was antithetic to the development of Nigerians.
“The current move to withdraw another subsidy is condemnable.
“President Goodluck Jonathan should resist, for once, the current push by his colleagues and agents of international finance bodies, who are known parasites on government, to hearken to the cries of the citizens to deliver service that can transform their lives.”
Culled The PUNCH
March 11,
2013
We convey fraternal greetings of solidarity from our
teaming patriots and nationalists working under the platform of Patriotic Front
(PF) seeking to develop a common framework with you toward resolving the
critical issue of producing a truly alternative people-oriented political party
capable of producing credible, responsive and accountable leaders in 2015. This
is a historic challenge in our march to nationhood, which require that all
patriots and nationalists must work together to redirect the political process for
the pursuit of genuine nation-building.
Our goal is to define the path to strategic
relationships between Nigerians represented by patriotic interests with our
political leaders currently working for the merger of the Action Congress of
Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC), section of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), other
political parties, progressive organizations and individuals with the objective
of facilitating the emergence of All Progressives Congress (APC). The vision is
to articulate key issues which will form the basis of engagement in the
political process.
PF care about you because we recognize that there is
little chance of effecting positive political change in the country and/or
making fundamental change to the way we live without massive mobilization of
various potential partisan and non-partisan political actors. We understand
that electoral success depends largely on whether strategic and principled
partnership with several political, professional and communal movements can be
built to break away from the reinforcing circle of underdevelopment and
authoritarianism.
PF recognizes the need to spend quality time engaging
with politicians to facilitate minimum commitments and understandings before
the urgent work of direct and traditional politicking begins. We care about you
because we recognize that there is little chance of tailoring electoral victory
towards effecting fundamental change to the way we live without massive
mobilization of various potential political actors. Countries where opposition
parties have defeated the ruling party and facilitated a fundamental shift only
succeed through broad alliances and mass mobilization.
We are extending our hand of fellowship to you and
your esteemed supporters to join, support
or bless our initiative to engage the APC merger process so that it
succeed as a true reflection of what Nigerians are yearning for. In particular,
PF understand that the issue of free and fair elections as vehicle for
ascending to public office in Nigeria is a source of concern to all Nigerians.
Related issues of internal democracy in party organization across all the
political parties further complicate our national democratic challenges. It is
our conviction that proactive engagement especially at this opportune moment of
negotiating the formation of APC is a strategic, patriotic and historic
national duty incumbent on all Nigerians committed to national democratic
development.
PF humbly request your kind endorsement and active
participation in our initiative to engage the APC merger process in order to
move our great nation forward. Our objective is to facilitate the emergence of
the APC as a people-oriented national party committed to specific national
development targets in all sectors of our economy. The ultimate goal therefore
is to ensure that national democratic development is founded on the growth of
truly democratic institution and culture.
We are convinced that the way forward is largely
dependent on the guarantee of issue based political competition
for elective and appointive offices in the new party - APC - and in wider
polity. In order to ensure good understanding and partnership, we will
appreciate an opportunity to share and exchange perspectives on how best to engage
the APC merger process so that it is able to meet the aspirations of Nigerians.
It is our conviction that the challenges require the development of structures
at all levels of our national life. Your views and perspectives on how to
address all these critical national challenges will be required for a
meaningful engagement and structures.
Kindly feel free to reach us by email: pfnigeria13@gmail.com
for any further clarification.
Fraternally yours,
Salihu Moh. Lukman Emma
Ezeazu
I am one with all the poor, marginalized, exploited, and working peoples of the world, for whom El-Comandante represented hope, in mourning the passing of this extraordinary personality, and in celebrating his life and legacy – the Bolivarian Revolution, whose aim is to build Socialism of the 21st century!
Many of us want change, in fact perhaps the overwhelming
majority of us desire to have such a decisive and impactful change in our
polity, in the way we are governed, in the processes of governance, in the
dynamics of our national economy, and in the nature of social cohesion among
our peoples.
