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Political parties in the country have been advised to do away with political godfathers in their respective domains.

The advise is coming from John Oyegun, former national chairman of the ruling All Progressive Congress (APC).

The issue of godfatherism was first brought to the front burner recently by Nasir El-rufai, the governor of Kaduna State.

Mr El-rufai recently advised residents of Lagos State on how to end the reign of political godfathers in their domain, claiming he did same in his own state.

The action of the governor was largely seen as an indirect attack on Bola Tinubu, national leader of the APC who is adjudged to be the politically father of Lagos State.

Making his own contribution, the former APC chairman, in an interview News Telegraph, said godfathers should be done away with in political parties because they prevents the flourishing of internal democracy and breeds corruption.

“I think the basic problem we have all over is the godfather thing. Internal democracy simply means that if 10 people want to vie for an office, so be it. Let the electorate decide,” Oyegun said.

“But when party leaders are the ones deciding who is fit or who is not fit, that becomes a problem.

“That is the decision of the electorate. And when they start displacing persons with their friends and other undesirable inducement, that is totally unacceptable.

“The damage it does is that you are destroying the belief of the electorate in due process. So, it becomes more difficult to accept the result of an election.

“The moment people start believing that they cannot get a fair share, that the system cannot be fair to them, whereas if you painstakingly pursue the process of letting the electorate decide, eventually you will find out that this going to court will begin to go down.

“But once you do otherwise, people would have at the back of their minds that they are not fairly treated and would look for every manner of excuse to go to court.

“That alone opens up the judicial system and the entire political system to another level and different levels of corruption.

“So, the damage is intense and I pray that our politicians will see the need for a proper internal democracy and allow due process and allow the people to thoroughly decide,” the former APC chairman added.

Source: https://politicstimesng.com/why-political-parties-should-do-away-with-godfathers-oyegun/

All this story na for Tinubu to find am someting to take hold body.
Anyhow sha, na the reporter way give u mic to talk na im i blame!

nice advice from chief oyegun.

You mean Godfathers like Senator Ekweremandu and Governor Wike

Can an independent candidate fund and win an election in 9ja Without bullion vans from pple like tinubu or atiku

Greed for 2023 is gradually driving Tinubu to extinction, imagine after 2015 elections, he was abandoned for 3 years plus till the politics of 2019 started. He was then resurrected by the so called dullard, dusted up . Immediately after helping the dullard to win again, he has been a subject of constant attack by the dullard's men

The heat is calescenting to topple the godfather in Lagos if u know what I mean.

Selling political tickets at expensive rate can you purchase at those rate without a political godfather backup.... When the bush meat start hunting the hunter...

He was also involved in this one way or the other....

This political ikwikwii too is talking.

I’m not aware there is a political party in Nigeria with a policy of godfatherism. Saying political parties should do away with godfathers is simply playing to the gallery. People shout about godfather when they lose out. Oyegun himself was heavily supported by APC godfathers before he could emerge as APC national chairman.

In the case of Lagos, Ambode was never denied the chance to contest. He contested and lost to the incumbent governor.

Even in the US, it was the establishment of the Democratic Party that ensures Hilary Clinton got the party presidential ticket against Bernie Sanders in the last election. No party can do away with political leaders who have paid their dues.

wckabuoh:
The heat is calescenting to topple the godfather in Lagos if u know what I mean.

Go and ask Saraki to share his testimony with you.

YungMillionaire:
You mean Godfathers like Senator Ekweremandu and Governor Wike

You think Enugu is like Lagos any drug lord can be a godfather?

Oyegun talking like a wounded lion . Did he not attempt to be a Godfather before it all backfired?

Good

simonlee:
All this story na for na Tinubu to find am some someting to take hold body.
Anyhow sha, na the reporter way give u mic to talk na im i blame!

You sef sabi as e dey go. This one that used to collect money from Apc politicians and couldn't sanction them.

Oyegun is useless politically. Them don finish an for Edo state.

Earthquake2:
You think Enugu is like Lagos any drug lord can be a godfather?

Then why is it that Ekweremandu has spent more than 16 years in Abuja? Is he the ONLY one in Enugu qualified to fill that seat? Keep fooling yourself.

Even Oyegun was once a godfather in politics, I'm sure if he ever regains relevancy his brain would reset.

tell our yeloba muslim brodas

Victim

Nice one coming from oyegun Asiwaju your days are numbered

O Big Daddy just got his voice back
It's pay back time and it's going to be very interesting.

See this man?

Tom Ikimi was to become the first Chairman of APC before Tinubu (and ors) checkmated him and anointed Oyegun as the Chairman. The same Oyegun is now talking about doing away with godfathers today.

Will he have become APC Chairman without those godfathers?

wckabuoh:
The heat is calescenting to topple the godfather in Lagos if u know what I mean.

You can't topple Tinubu


It's impossible.

Mistakes people have made in the past.

I will expose it to you. To topple Tinubu, you need to break break the stool that makes him stand tall


Facing Tinubu is effort in futility

Hahahaha... Oyegun, we already know the godfather you're talking about. See him here

qereshi:
Greed for 2023 is gradually driving Tinubu to extinction, imagine after 2015 elections, he was abandoned for 3 years plus till the politics of 2019 started. He was then resurrected by the so called dullard, dusted up . Immediately after helping the dullard to win again, he has been a subject of constant attack by the dullard's men

Stop arrogating to people power they do not have. How exactly did Tinubu helped Buhari to win the last election? What was the total vote cast of south west for Tinubu? Buhari struggled to win the south west even in Lagos Atiku gave him a run for his money. Tinubu has only one vote, without him, Buhari would still have won the last election using his incumbency strength. Jonathan lost because he was a true democrat and Lily livered. Cut us the Tinubu crap. He is no God.