Is APC taking a nap?

"Back to what I was telling you about Nigeria’s main opposition party, the APC. You get the feeling that the party is afraid to nominate its biggest star. The endless search for a perfect candidate will add to its demise. What the party needs is a winning ticket, not a perfect candidate. As of today, millions of Nigerians cannot tell the difference between the APC and the PDP.

If the APC wants to be a regional party, that’s fine; but it should stop pretending to be a national party. It is conspicuously absent in the South-East, South-South and the Middle Belt, the presence of the likes of Rochas Okorocha, Chris Ngige, Chibuike Amaechi and Timi Sylva notwithstanding. Something else: It allowed the PDP to pin the Boko Haram emblem on its forehead to the point where many Nigerians now associate the APC with religious intolerance, insatiable violence and ethnic bigotry.

And of course, many members of the APC, more often than not, act individualistically – as opposed to acting like a group of men and women with a common goal, common agenda and common destiny. That it has several dozen political stars and intellectual giants is by itself not a negative. This only becomes a hindrance when they act independent of one another and jettison the ideals of a serious and purposeful collective.

While Jonathan is generally regarded as the face of the PDP, who is the face of the APC? The party has too many faces and contradictory messages. What’s more, the APC is politicking mostly on the pages of the newspaper and in social media. You need people and other resources on the ground. Somehow, the party seems to think that media domination will earn it several government houses and majority parliamentary seats and the ultimate prize, Aso Rock.

Unrelenting attacks against Jonathan is not a strategy. He is who he is and the masses understand that. The masses know this too. The PDP has been wasting the people’s time and resources since 1999. Well, that’s not new. They get it. They understand the picture they’ve been staring at since 1999. The question is: What can the APC do? In what ways would life and governance be different if the ruling party is thrown out of the Villa? What would they do about crimes, corruption, job creation, poverty reduction, electricity and transport? Tell the people in a clear and concise manner.

It is not enough to say, “Jonathan is bad…clueless…ineffective and condones corruption” and all that. No! What’s the alternative? Without a believable alternative – in terms of candidate and leadership and message – Nigerians will not budge! They will not vote Jonathan out..."

Op, frm ur analysis and conclusion, u are the one taking a nap here.
You think apc politics is played on pages of paper and social media, and that they need people on ground to work for them. I guess it is social media, newspaper that were on ground and not ppl that made them to win the osun election. Na social media and newspaper do campaign and voting dat gave apc victory in dat state. You see why i say u are d one taking a nap?