The Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) has expressed its support of yesterday’s decision of five governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to merge with the All Progressive Congress (APC).

In a statement signed by its spokesman, Mr. Anthony Sani, the forum described it as a healthy development towards the emergence of a viable alternative platform for the polity, considering democracy without viable opposition is a sham.

“The defection of five PDP Governors to APC is democracy in action which allows players to change their political strategy towards declared goals when the need arises,” ACF said.

It expressed happiness that its advocacy of a two-party system has become a reality.

“Before now, the multi-party practices have not provided Nigerians with clear choices painfully designed and laboriously erected by the political parties, precisely because the political parties have been clones of one another.”

The statement concluded that the latest developments will increase the political choices available to Nigerians.

“Consequently, the choice has been reduced from which political parties can deliver on the promise of democracy to which of the political parties has the capacity to win elections in a political economy that enables government to determine who gets what, why, where, how and when,” the Forum said.

It expressed the hope that the unfolding political dynamics will lead to the evolution of two political parties which are “far-sighted, sure-footed and resolute in their determination to promote democracy premised on triple foundation of liberty, justice and common decency, needed for the development and growth of our democracy.