Congresses: Democracy takes flight in PDP, APC

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In this piece, JOHN ALECHENU takes a look at the recently concluded congresses of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and posits that Nigerians need a change of attitude to make appreciable progress in politics

takes a look at the recently concluded congresses of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party and posits that Nigerians need a change of attitude to make appreciable progress in politics

Managing victory became a challenge for the new President and the relatively new APC which, for the first time, found itself in power at the centre. The APC ward, local government and state congresses of 2018, which produced delegates and candidates for the 2019 election, were as rancorous as they came.

Violence erupted in Osun and Ogun states while parallel congresses were also held in Lagos, Kano, Ogun, Osun, Bauchi, Rivers, Ekiti, Abia, Sokoto, Borno, Imo, Plateau and Enugu states. In Kwara State, loyalists of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq and those of the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed held parallel congresses and produced two sets of state executives.

 

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