THE IGBO GIANT STRIDES AGAINST ALL ODDS
9 years ago
BUILD THE PARTY TO
TAKE BACK NIGERIA: CONVERT YOUR ANGER INTO LIBERATING POLITICAL ACTION
[STATEMENT ISSUED BY
THE PROTEST TO POWER COLLECTIVE ON THE RELEASE OF THE MANIFESTO OF THE PROPOSED
PARTY – DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR SOCIALIST
RECONSTRUCTION – DPSR – JAN 20TH 2013]
RECONSTRUCTION – DPSR – JAN 20TH 2013]
The Protest To Power Collective [P2PC],
is a loose and growing collective of activists active across Nigeria and in the
Diaspora, who have reached the conclusion that the most significant lesson
taught by the January Uprising of 2012 is the necessity for Nigerians who are
gravely concerned about the devastating conditions of the country, to make the
leap from protest to power.
We have reached the collective
understanding that the time has come for us to move from merely venting our
anger in various forms of protests, to converting that anger and energy into
the liberating task of building an alternative and radical mass based political
platform, with which to dislodge the light fingered treasury looting Nigeria
Ruling class from power, and begin the onerous task of building a new, united,
strong, and prosperous nation; One where meeting the basic needs of the
citizens, and guaranteeing the welfare and wellbeing of citizens and the
national economy, as well as their security, would be the enforceable principle
of governance.
If the year 2012 essentially defined by
the January Uprising, was the year that millions of Nigerians took a definite
stance and insisted that Enough is Enough; this new year, 2013, is the year
when as citizens aggrieved by the unprecedented scale and scope corruption
through pilfering of our collective wealth, and leading to historic and
unsustainable levels of mass poverty [70%]; mass joblessness, homelessness, and
grave insecurity; this is the year when we must put our collective anger into
collective political use by working together to build, a Mass United
Alternative Political Party platform to contest and wrest political power from
these inept thieving, and ruinous ruling class. This is the task, the duty, the
obligation set for us in 2013 by the January Uprising of 2012.
In furtherance of this historic task and
duty, we are publicly releasing the proposed manifesto for such a party
platform; a platform that we are tentatively calling the ‘Democratic Party For
Socialist Reconstruction [DPSR]. We urge each and everyone concerned enough
about the catastrophic trajectory of our country to take up and engage actively
with this manifesto, and set up party units around the manifesto everywhere
they are. It is sufficient to simply have a coordinator and Secretary for such
units wherever they are set up. It is equally important that such party [DPSR]
units once set up get connected and linked with the Interim Secretariat, and
remain in regular contact with it.
We are very much aware that apart from
the jostling within the ruling PDP, and the merger process among the main
opposition parties (ACN, CPC, ANPP); We are aware that quite a number of
incipient initiatives are also emerging towards building new types of
alternative parties [that is alternative to the existing numerous ruling class
parties]. We commend and identify with every such genuine initiative that is
oriented on the social emancipation of Nigerians, radical social transformation
of the national economy and polity; as well as the genuine National Liberation
of Nigeria.
We are convinced that the only way this
bungling, historically inept and congenitally corrupt ruling class, can be
dislodged from power as the first step in the task of National Liberation and
social emancipation; is for all of these genuine alternative party initiatives
to come together and work out a joint political action platform in some form of
a UNITED MOVEMENT TYPE PARTY, which alone can stand the chance of annihilating
and dislodging the treasury looting class from power.
Towards this end, we call on all of
these efforts to formally reach out to one another, and begin the necessary
multi-lateral consultations, that should necessarily lead to the emergence, at
some point by the end of 2013, of such a united mass party.
We on our part are open to the convening
of such inter – party forum for the emergent radical alternative parties by the
beginning of the 2nd quarter of 2013.
INTERIM SECRETARIAT:
[takebacknaija@gmail.com; Takebacknigeria@blogspot.com; twitter: @Protest To
Power; FB: TAKE BACK NIGERIA PAGE & GROUP]
Yinka Suleiman: 08038083740
Kenneth Okoineme:
08035939033
Odoh Diego Okenyedo:
08035909778
Wole Elegbede:
08033311478
Gbenro Olajuyigbe:
08027573703
Tunde Aremu:
08023180493
Jaye Gaskia:
08033105107
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