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Nigeria 2015:
Contrary to the view in many quarters,
the 2015 Nigeria Presidential election
is not about Fashola or Oshiomole or
Buhari, it is about a lasting structure
to build a lasting democracy, and main
opposition APC style as of now,
cannot defeat the ruling PDP unless
EPS is adopted.
PDP requires only 25% in most the
states under APC and will still keep
the South-East and South-South votes
to win the presidency. It is the bitter
truth.
The only life line for the APC is the
recommendation of the Oracle on
Expanded Primary System, EPS, which
will make APC a grassroots party and
easily it will be able to win the
presidency if the party can run away
from godfather mentality of kowtowing
to General Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu,
and give everyone the opportunity to
grow; but what they have now can
only fetch them couple of states in
2015.
The first American President George
Washington told his country not to
build their democracy around him but
build it on institutions because a
government system built around
individuals will only give temporary
solution, institution will take a nation
up. In July President Obama delivered
a speech in South Africa asking
leaders in Africa to focus on three
areas, Opportunities, Democracy and
Peace.
EPS will provide opportunities for all
politicians to grow, not the recycled
leaders from the military days. With
EPS the country can realize its full
potentials from the pool of leaders
that will emerge, and EPS will bring
the lasting peace in our body politics
in which tribalism and religion will be
forced to play a back role. But the
greatest set back to this may the
ambitions of General Buhari and
Asiwaju Tinubu in 2015, which is why
the Oracle says, APC is planning to
lose the election if EPS is not taken on
the prima facie.
This is the bitter truth; think about it!
What will four more years look like
under President Ebele Jonathan? Not
because he can do anything or effect a
change, it will be for the failure of the
leaders of APC to adopt a different
strategy to bring the party to the
grassroots of the electorates.
The Oracle is pleading with all lovers
of change in 2015 to ask Buhari, Ikimi,
and Tinubu to adopt EPS or prepare to
watch President Jonathan’s re-election
from the sidelines as he wins four
more years. Those asking Buhari to be
the 2015 candidate of Party without
EPS must be ready to accept the
verdict of the electorates when
President Jonathan wins again.
If the General can win the nomination
of the party through EPS nothing can
stop him from winning the presidency
anything beside this is failure for APC.
Williams Shakespeare said in one of
his plays Julius Caesar, “the eyes sees
not itself except by other reflections.”
APC right now is a party of the blind
in the darkness, they need a generator
or light to see.
Warning from the ORACLE:
The Benefits of Expanded Primary
System (EPS) on Nigeria and African
politics.
Expanded Primary System, EPS
The purpose of EPS is to expand the
opportunity of getting all interested
candidates to have a fair shot at the
presidency irrespective of sex, race or
religion as long as he or she can
convince the electorates to vote for
him or her. A prospective candidate
must meet the requirement of each of
the state’s electoral Board or INEC
requirement in case of non-availability
of state requirement like we have now,
each state political party must set up
a guideline on how a candidate can
meet the party requirement. The
Oracle is suggesting the format below
however, the details and finesse of it
can be worked out by the experts with
the support from INEC to conduct the
primary election; it would have been
okay if all the parties can do it at the
same time, PDP, APC and others.
To be on the ballot box to run for the
office of presidency, a candidate must
qualify to be on the approved register
list of each state. How can a
candidate get the approval? He or she
must obtain at least 5000 or
designated signatures of party
members in the state of those in good
standing with the law and a deposit of
any reasonable amount to be
determined by each state, a police
clearance, and proof of tax payment
and list of asset declaration that will
be published in state or regional
circulated newspapers.
The candidate must disclose all his or
her financial contributors in the zone
to the INEC including monthly
contribution on state and national
level; this is to prevent the system
from being taken over by money bags.
Since Nigeria is tentatively divided into
six zones, West, North West, North
East, South South, East and Middle
Belt, the primary election will have to
be conducted at the same time in all
the states within each zone, while
other zone will have to wait, for
example if the East of Nigeria is
alphabetically taken as the first zone
all the states in the region, like
Anambra, Imo, Abia and Enugu must
conduct the primary election on the
same day, another months will be
selected for the primaries in the West,
North West, North East, South South,
and Middle Belt, meaning we can
rotate between North and South until
we have been able to conclude the
EPS.
Each of the candidates would have
campaigned in all the states in the
region including holding town hall
meetings, at least two debates that
will involve all the candidates to sell
their dreams and plans for Nigerians,
for example if General Buhari, Tinubu
or Okorocha want to run for
presidency, all of them must register
their interest with all the party offices
in all the states in the East of Nigeria,
they must obtain at least 5000 or
designated figures from registered
voters in the each state of the region
to be on the ballot box.
What happen if any of them can’t get
the 5000 or designated number of
signatures of voters in such a state? It
is simple. The affected person will not
be on the approved list of those to
contest in such a state in the
primaries, and miss the delegates
from such state, but it will not stop
him for being on the national list if he
wins the party ticket on the long run.
Winning must be based on the
approved delegates; the more state
you win the more the delegates you
get enables ytou to get the final
nomination of the Party to be ratified
at the National Convention.
The above will help to reduce
proliferation of political parties in
Nigeria and very soon two party
systems will become an established
institution, not a party structure based
on individuals or godfather mentality
but a lasting legacy, the same
procedure will be followed by the next
zone, since East had been taken as
the first division for the extended
primary EPS, another region
presumably in the North will be taken
as the next, meaning Buhari, Tinubu or
Okorocha would have the same
method used in the East to win
delegates in the North East, and so on,
until all the six zones must have
participated in the choosing the
candidate that will represent the party
at the national presidential election.
In all, we are looking at minimum 12
debates involving all the candidates
and all the citizens would have had the
opportunities of asking and knowing
the quality of candidates that will be
running for the office of presidency.
Some candidates would have dropped
along the way if they are unable to
gather enough delegates from one or
two zones or after their lack of
preparedness must have been detected
by the press and the electorates in the
way they answer questions or if their
past revealed negative or unpatriotic
attitude, this is the beauty of expanded
primary system, and the electorates
get to know or understand their
candidates as the primary goes on.
The National Convention of the party
is just a formality that will just be to
ratify the results of all the zones of
the federation. Can this system work
in Nigeria if PDP decides not to go
through the same route? This is the
questions in the minds of the readers,
yes. The Oracle says if APC can do
this, it will give it a legitimate ground
to lay a solid foundation for winning,
when the party must have gone
through a process of getting a sharper
and better candidate, he or she will
emerge and Nigerians will be properly
educated on what it takes to be a
leader of 160 million people and PDP
will have no choice, than to follow suit.
If the PDP fails to adopt similar
method it will provide a better
opportunity for the electorates to leave
the party like bad habit and vote for
APC since they plan to be relevant, the
party will have to adopt EPS.
Again, the Oracle says the details of
EPS is within the political parties and
INEC to add flesh to this proposal and
if the INEC decides to adopt this
expanded primary system EPS, it will
help our Democracy a lot. However it
will be just okay to give a brief on the
benefits to expect from this silent
political revolution called EPS. With
EPS we can solve Nigeria’s political
problems by more than 55 percent.
We will be able to eliminate aimless
candidates from running for office in
Nigeria again. We will be able to re-
elect politicians based on performance,
and religion will take the back seat, so
it is with tribalism. Result will be the
yardstick for winning, and godfathers
may have to find another job. Our
press will become the voice and
opinions of the people and those with
skeletons in the closets will run away
from politics.
The positive effect of the process will
rub off more on our judiciary, they will
be too afraid to pervert justice; all our
institutions will witness positive
change. EPS is the silent revolution of
the masses for a better society, based
on accountability and result. In future
when we want state and city police for
security of our society it will not be
stopped, when we ask for mayoral
system to develop our towns and cities
it will not be challenged by those who
don’t have anything to offer. Nigeria’s
train of progress will never be stopped
again as all enemies of development
will run away and our children and
coming generations will be happy to
call themselves Nigerians again in any
part of the world as a pride to the
black race. It will be a revolution that
will spread to all the 55 countries in
Africa.
Zents Sowunmi aka ‘The Oracle’ is a
New York based writer. Author of
“President Obama: Hero or Villain of
Capitalism” and “Before the Journey
became Home” In December 2013 a
new book by the Oracle will be in the
market:


“The Vultures and Vulnerable.”
By Zents Kunle Sowunmi (The Oracle)

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