It should be made clear that all claims in this piece were not formulated at our own end, to further ascertain and to be sure we are not acting on propagandas, the ruling party’s official website was visited and the pre-election manifesto was downloaded and it was well studied before this publication was made.
As a party (KOWA), reading through APC’s manifesto, we were amazed (this is something to beat), but seeing the steps taken towards its implementation so far, we are saddened and we strongly hope our people have not been short changed.
In the manifesto, APC emphasized on key areas affecting the masses and proffered a partial solution to them, the solutions are more like a subsiding one and not a permanent cure. With the way things are and how the party has being going about denying promises upon promises, we decided to give a soft landing and selected five key unavoidable areas. Areas we will be laying emphasis on includes:
• Constitution reforms
• Security
• Conflict resolution, National Unity, Social Harmony
• Job creation
• Economy
• Industrialization
To do justice to the selected area of interests, the remaining part of this piece will be structured as follow:
• Manifesto: This will contain the promises made prior to the election by President Buhari and APC at large.
• So far: The so-far space will be majorly about what APC and President Buhari led administration has done to ensure the fulfillment of their promises.
• Suggestion: The suggestion space will therefore contain advice and opinion from our database of knowledge which we found necessary at this time to assist a partially confused party in governance.
In no particular other, the selected area will be discussed below:
THE CONSTITUTION REFORM
Manifesto:
• Initiate action to amend our Constitution with a view to devolving powers, duties and responsibilities to states and local governments in order to entrench true Federalism and the Federal spirit;
• Strengthen INEC to reduce/ eliminate electoral malpractices;
• Attract the best and brightest into our politics and public service by aggressive recruitment of private sector people, academics and professionals within Nigeria and in the Diaspora through internships, fellowships, executive appointments and special nomination to contest elective offices;
• Prevent abuse of executive, legislative and public offices through greater accountability, transparency and strict enforcement of anti-corruption laws whilst strengthening the EFCC and ICPC;
• Amend the Constitution to remove immunity from prosecution for elected officers in criminal cases;
• Restructure government for a leaner, more efficient and adequately compensated public service;
• Require full disclosure in all media outlets of all government contracts over N100m prior to award and during implementation at regular intervals;
• Reform and Strengthen the Justice System for efficient administration and dispensation of justice along with the creation of special courts for accelerated hearing of corruption, drug trafficking, terrorism and similar cases of national importance;

• Ensure full implementation of the Freedom of Information Act so that government held data sets can be requested and used by the media and the public at large, and then published on regular basis;
• Seek to amend the Constitution to require local governments to publish their meeting minutes, service performance data and items of spending over N10M.

So far: From the manifesto, APC made 10 salient promises in line with the amendment of our generally perceived paleolithic constitution. A welcome idea and a good selling point during the electioneering days but what steps have they taken so far? It is glaring to all that, the leadership of the party have not been able to even control their members in the NASS not to talk of bringing them together to work towards fulfilling those promises. That the party is in internal shambles became more glaring during the house leadership battle, the enormous selfish interest among the elected members on the platform of APC is abysmal, this is only peculiar to political party whose ideology has been polluted. After one year in the saddle, Nigerians can testify to the fact that there has been an observance in the breach of the president’s promise of constitutional reforms when he assumes duties as the president of Nigeria. The FOI Act, the PIB bill, the removal of immunity for executive officers among others have not seen the light of the legislation. The only attempt at law making especially at the National Assembly are unpopular bills like the Frivolous Social Media Bill, the CCB/T Ammendment Bill and more recently the Bill to enlarge the jurisdiction of the Sharia Court of Appeal that has just scaled through second reading at the House of Representatives. It is to be noted also that the National Assembly did passed not more than 3 bills until January 2016 before these frivolous bills started surfacing. Such legislative or attempt at constitutional reforms overlooks the real constitutional problems that have affected the fate of the nation. The central issues like the amendment of the Land use Act; to free up government’s hold on land, Local Government Autonomy and the devolution of powers to the states and local governments in the spirit of true fiscal federalism among others, have become a mirage.
For us at KOWA, it smacks of the proclivity of the APC wanting to maintain the status quo and bring about CHANGE with the same laws or even worse laws than the ones that led us to this state. This is because one year is enough time to have set those legislative stones in motion. But alas, that remains to be seen.
Suggestion: We are urging the party to as a matter of urgency put their house in other so as to ensure the fulfillment of their promises to the masses. The importance of an intellectually reviewed constitution will go a long way in catalysing our development. Considering what is playing out, APC is failing. If it is taking them more than a year in governance to strim down egos within their party, how long will it take the party to draw out plan to fulfill these promises.

Your party doesn't have an opinion. You didn't talks about tomatoes... Now you're ranting.

I have a dream...

Kowa party will one day rule Nigeria.

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Although their observations are not well analysed as it did not capture much of executive actions and in actions, their comments do sound hateful.
Think they can be a good opposition