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January 30, 2014

‘APC legislative blockade, political rascality’

‘APC legislative blockade, political rascality’

The Senate

The instruction by All  Progressives Congress, APC, leadership to its  members in the National Assembly, to block the passage of the 2014 budget and confirmation of service chiefs, among others, has been described as political rascality.

A Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, chieftain and former aide of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State, Mr. Ben Onyechere, who made the call in Umuahia, yesterday, noted that APC was now a private property of a few people.

He said: “It is a tip of the ice- berg and an insight to what Nigerians should expect from APC government. Our democracy is too nascent to be confined in the hands of a political association, which is yet to undergo the processes of party formation because it is not enough to be recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission, lNEC.

“The only way to qualify as party is when you go through the process of interest articulation and aggregation, during which  members will show their true colours.
“It is a big disgrace to Nigeria and Africa in general for fellow Nigerians to stand against the wheel of progress in the bid to be relevant. This is where the difference lies because nobody in PDP can harbour such wicked plan to undermine the collective welfare of Nigerians.”