A former Governor of Kaduna State and leader of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP), Alhaji Balarabe Musa has predicted a gloomy future for Nigeria if President Goodluck Jonathan is re-elected in the 2015 Presidential election for his second term.
According to him, the way the country is being governed showed that Jonathan is incapable of running the affairs of Nigeria and that even the sympathisers of the President have come to terms with the reality.
Balarabe Musa said that neither All Progressives Congress (APC) nor the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) can produce the president in 2015, insisting that his Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) which has been deregistered by INEC, is the only party that can take the country out of the wood.
Speaking to Journalists at a meeting with 26 State Executive Committee members of his Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) in Kaduna today, the former governor said that it is the PRP which had already gone into merger with other political parties that can form the next government.
He made it clear that there is no difference between the PDP and the APC and asked Nigerians to reject them as none of the parties is credible enough to take Nigerians to the Promise Land.
Balarabe Musa said that PRP had since instituted legal action against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for deregistering the party.
“We are not in support of Buhari or Jonathan because we are not in APC or PDP. We are neutral. We belong to a credible alternative, that is, we merged with Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) for the purpose of the 2015 elections.
“We are better alternative to both Jonathan and Buhari, and fundamentally, there is distinct difference between the alliance and APC and PDP, the alliance makes a fundamental difference in the sense that we are committed to leading the way to end all forms of insecurity in order to ensure peace for human and infrastructural developments in the country.
“Nigerians should reject APC and PDP because they brought about the negative states of the nation.”
Balarabe Musa said that President Jonathan’s administration’s ineptitude, bankruptcy and decadence stand out clearly for all to see, adding that under Jonathan, everything seemed to have collapsed in Nigeria.
“When we turn our glance to the domestic front, the picture we see is gloomy. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan’s administration has proved, even to its former ardent sympathisers, that it is simply incapable of running the affairs of this nation.
“In whatever field or sector you consider, the Administration’s ineptitude, bankruptcy and decadence stands out for anyone who cares to
look. Poverty and unemployment are on the rise and becoming more and more unbearable.
“Agriculture, the mainstay of the national economy and the source of livelihood of some eighty percent of the population, is stagnating and in the doldrums.
“Most industries have since closed shop. Indeed, it can even be said that these past six years of President Jonathan have witnessed the deindustrialisation of Nigeria. Nigeria is now for all practical purposes, just a large supermarket for all manner of imported goods and services.
“The story is even grimmer when it comes to national security and the protection of the territorial integrity of the country, and the lives and property of citizens.
“The failure and total incapacity of the Administration to deal with the insurgency in the northern part of the country and stopping it from spreading to other parts of the country is so incomprehensible that many are now forced to wonder if the government itself is not actually the sponsor of these miscreants for political reasons.” [myad]
