The new National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, John Odigie-Oyegun, has said with the successful enthronement of a new national leadership for the party, there is an opportunity for it to kick out the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from power in 2015.
Odigie-Oyegun, the Third Republic governor of Edo State emerged as the national chairman of the APC at the party’s convention in Abuja which ended Saturday morning. The convention is its first since its registration as a political party by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, last July.
In his acceptance speech Saturday morning, the chairman said the ruling PDP had failed to provide Nigerians with stable power supply, failed to provide them with security that would enable them sleep peacefully on their beds at night, failed to provide employment for millions of Nigerian youths, and failed to stem the tide of corruption that was robbing Nigeria’s children of their future.
The chairman, who was the vice presidential running candidate of the defunct All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, in the 2011 presidential election, said the APC would provide Nigerians with a visionary, dedicated, and people-oriented leadership that would liberate the nation from PDP’s rule of poverty and oppression.
Under the stewardship of the APC, he stressed, Nigeria would progress and Nigerians will thrive but admitted that the task of savaging Nigeria would not be easy because the rot in the country was deep.
He noted that the task would be more difficult because the PDP would be determined to frustrate APC’s mission.
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