LEADER of opposition political parties
and former Governor of Kaduna State,
Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has said that
Nigerians should not see the All
Progressives Congress (APC) as the
party that would transform the nation’s
economy even if it succeeds in
defeating the Peoples Democratic Party
(PDP) in the 2015 presidential polls.


According to Musa, there is no
ideological difference between the APC
and PDP that would permit radical
changes to be effected in the nation’s
economy, which would also lead to the
transformation of Nigeria. He pointed
out that both political parties shared
the same capitalist orientation and
principles.


Musa, who spoke with The Guardian in
an Interview, said though the chances
of APC in the 2015 general elections “is
still being examined by the critical
forces in Nigeria, the party has a
chance but they should not just
assume that the chance is bright
because of the crisis and bankruptcy of
the PDP, they have to make sure that
they are more reliable and more
relevant than the PDP.”


The former governor who is also the
leader of the Peoples Redemption Party
(PRP), said that “the PRP is not a
member of APC and would not be a
member for ideological reasons”, while
stressing that “the most clear
ideological reason is this, the APC, like
the PDP, believes in the leading role of
private enterprise in the economy,
while the PRP believes in the leading
role of the state in the economy to
ensure peace, equality, dignity of the
human person and progressive even
development of the whole country.”


Musa continued: “This is a fundamental
distinction. The PRP cannot join the APC
without betraying its course. We
agreed that there is need to defeat the
PDP in order to make progress in
Nigeria. But that need alone does not
justify our surrender of our
fundamental position.


“We will eventually, when we establish
our separate identity as a political
party. And you know that the PRP has a
problem. First, we have been
deregistered, even though the court
has now declared the deregistration as
null and void. But, we are still facing a
problem.


“Secondly, we have been prized out in
the competitive politics, but we are
determined to remain and we will
remain as we have been doing that for
the last 63 years. PRP is now 63 years,
having been established in 1950 as the
NEPU. The party is now the oldest in
the country.
”

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I thought APC are coming with some fresh sets of change and ideologies?