size38: When u tell Nigerians what manner of PDP, the ruling party is. We will tell u what u don't want to know about APC

maestroferddi: You can avail us with your understanding what an opposition party entails?


Was this how our heroes past like Awo and Azikiwe played opposition that made them national icons?

obailala:

@Op,
To correct an erroneous assumption which you made, it is ONLY in Nigeria or maybe in Africa and other third world shaky democracies that an opposition party would come out and applaud the ruling party. I suppose your model of an opposition is what we have in Labour Party and APGA or in the 2007 and 2011 elections where 30 different political parties would endorse the incumbent president as their candidate?

You cannot be blamed because you were born in a country where all your life, you have been ruled by autocratic dictators and even when we transited to 'civilian' rule, we still practised an autocratic single party system up till last year when the APC was formed. Therefore, it doesn't come as a surprise that you and most Nigerians who are 'probably' sympathetic to GEJ/PDP and who are already used to autocracy, are confused at the concept of an opposition party being a pain in the butt of the ruling party.

Just like OseghaleEbosele rightly mentioned on this thread, go and study the situation in USA (Democratic Party vs Republican Party), UK and Australia(Labour Party vs Conservative Party), France (Socialist Party vs Union for a Popular Movement), Germany (Social Democratic. Party vs Christian Democratic Union). In the UK today, for every major decision made by the prime minister, an open debate would be held in the house of parliament between the prime minister Vs. the head of the opposition party; You need to understand that that is the beauty of democracy. The kind of opposition we have in Nigeria today is even a child's play because no matter how the APC screams of criticises, the ruling party still autocratically goes ahead to do whatever it likes...

...and just before I close this, @Op, can you please give an example of one of the 'good' policies of GEJ which was opposed by APC?

lilprinze: APC is a party full of evil people and hypocrites who are suffering from terminal
brain cancer that never sees anything good in what GEJ or FG is doing. They have about 5½ month to live they shall officially die and become history in this country after GEJ is declared winner of the 2015 presidential election.

maestroferddi: No-one is saying we shouldn't have a viable opposition. But just as it was pointed out above, the opposition should function as a veritable watchdog of government.

The present practice of speaking for the sake of speaking should be discontinued. Some of these actions are undermining national interest and development.

The least all of us can do is to support every elected government to deliver democracy dividends as promised during electioneering campaigns.

Parties must rise above partisan and petty bickering if the country must achieve her set goals and aspirations.

maestroferddi: I am personally astounded by the developments in this country. The degree of bitterness and intolerance are getting pretty worrisome.

Granted, the government in power has a lot to do to meet the expectation of the electorates that voted it into power. But then we have to draw a line between a constructive opposition and sheer unreasonableness.


In other climes, opposition elements make their mark by complementing the party in power. In other words, they, as a watchdog of government, provide constructive opposition. They praise the government when it makes positive progress and provide constructive criticism when the government falls out of line.

From the foregoing, the opposition duly earn their respect and recognition.
Infact,the opposition conduct themselves as a credible alternative. Put in another way, the opposition demonstrate, by their action, that they be could entrusted to form a broad-based government without jeopardising the common good.


The case of Nigeria is pathetically unfortunate. We have a situation where the major opposition party practically see nothing good in whatever the government does. It is as if the main opposition party viz APC is pre-set willy-nilly to denigrate and disparage all actions of government.


I am constrained to ask whether this tendency is purely an African thing; where you must denigrate and malign your counterpart even when doi so is at the detriment of the common good...

The All Progressives Congress (APC), Nigeria's main opposition party, I believe, has not covered itself in that much glory over the past few days. One would have expected some level of appreciation and commendation for the growing democratic culture in Nigeria as witnessed by the free and fair elections in some states in the past few months.

Instead, all one hears are a cacophony of discordant voices.
Now, I am beginning to comprehend why Julius Nyerere asserted that African culture abhors opposition...

egift: APC is a breath of fresh air to the corrupt ridden PDP that has spent 15 years in making Nigeria a giant crawling on it stomach. APC is a viable alternative to PDP. Never in this democratic dispensation have we ever had an alternative that defeat the monster called PDP.

By voting in APC and voting out PDP, Nigerians will achieve 4 things in our Political Space:
1. That the Masses are the Boss. While our politicians are the servants.
2. It will mean the APC will not repeat the callous and nonchalant leadership dispositions that PDP have been dishing out for the last 15 years.
3. PDP will have the opportunity to go back to the drawing board to prioritize what is paramount to them (protect criminals or serve the masses).
4. And since PDP know how to steal, they will better police the FG under APC by exposing any imaginable malpractice even before Nigerians can find out.

So any Patriotic Nigerian will see that it is for the best interest of Nigeria to vote out PDP and elect APC come 2015. This nation will triumph again.

Engen:

Really? Then you don't know anything about politics...The major job of an opposition is to oppose...even when you think the government is doing great the opposition feels they have a better way...

kipesco:
Sorry to say this, last term we had two main opposition party the ACN and the CPC.
If Okorocha wins in IMO does it change his attitudes to when he conducted in APGA.
One thing is the most of these governors people put them there and if they are no longer with u, u cannot win. Why has Goodluck reconciled with Obasanjo.
APC leaders check there records and check Jonathans.

Omexonomy: Durring obj's tenure vote dont count whenever election is coming we athoumatically know who will win but gej came and change all that. E.g durring obj tenure osun election could have be convienetly rig in favour of PDP and the millitary and police will take care of the rest but gej never thaught of such rather he alowed the people decide for them selves.

Omexonomy: Durring obj's tenure vote dont count whenever election is coming we athoumatically know who will win but gej came and change all that. E.g durring obj tenure osun election could have be convienetly rig in favour of PDP and the millitary and police will take care of the rest but gej never thaught of such rather he alowed the people decide for them selves.

Engen:

Really? Then you don't know anything about politics...The major job of an opposition is to oppose...even when you think the government is doing great the opposition feels they have a better way...

omenka: Leave the moronic Op. How many times have PDP commended the good works of APC in states where they are the opposition?? What manner of party steals and then hobnob with crooks and terrorists the way PDP does??

And what manner of Mod took this trash to the fp

kipesco:
Sorry to say this, last term we had two main opposition party the ACN and the CPC.
If Okorocha wins in IMO does it change his attitudes to when he conducted in APGA.
One thing is the most of these governors people put them there and if they are no longer with u, u cannot win. Why has Goodluck reconciled with Obasanjo.
APC leaders check there records and check Jonathans.

egift: APC is a breath of fresh air to the corrupt ridden PDP that has spent 15 years in making Nigeria a giant crawling on it stomach. APC is a viable alternative to PDP. Never in this democratic dispensation have we ever had an alternative that defeat the monster called PDP.

By voting in APC and voting out PDP, Nigerians will achieve 4 things in our Political Space:
1. That the Masses are the Boss. While our politicians are the servants.
2. It will mean the APC will not repeat the callous and nonchalant leadership dispositions that PDP have been dishing out for the last 15 years.
3. PDP will have the opportunity to go back to the drawing board to prioritize what is paramount to them (protect criminals or serve the masses).
4. And since PDP know how to steal, they will better police the FG under APC by exposing any imaginable malpractice even before Nigerians can find out.

So any Patriotic Nigerian will see that it is for the best interest of Nigeria to vote out PDP and elect APC come 2015. This nation will triumph again.

berem: don't mind the Op,he simply does not know the meaning of the word "Opposition". If he thinks APC will be like APGA and LP,then he got it absolutely wrong.

egift:

4. And since PDP know how to steal, they will better police the FG under APC by exposing any imaginable malpractice even before Nigerians can find out.

maestroferddi: The attitude you and several misguided folks are displaying is the crux of the matter.


Why is it that whatever the opposition don't understand must be wrong? Every policy initiated by the government must be wrong irrespective of the propriety of such policy.
This is the question most non-partisan Nigerians are asking.

Who told you guys that that is how politics is played? It is so painful to see that people cannot distinguish between nihilism and constructive engagement.

If you are not a good follower, how do you intend to become a good leader?

PDP is this, PDP is that...
Is the opposition aiming to outdo the ruling party in outlandish behaviour or to demonstrate that they are a better alternative by examplary conduct?

Does the Republican Party in the US set out to undermine the American government by showing to the outside world America's frailties as is almost the case in Nigeria?


Does the Labour Party in the UK go out of their way to rubbish the office of the Prime Minister just to score cheap political points or to engage in acts that undercut British institutions?

In advance democracies all over the world what we see are issue-based opposition politics and criticisms and not the desperado-style opposition being enacted in Nigeria where power is being sought at all cost.

Little wonder opposition parties are yet to form a government in Nigeria since independence in 1960.