The coming April general elections is the last chance for Nigeria to get it right in socio-political and economic development, the vice presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), Malam Mani Ibrahim Ahmad, has said.
He told our correspondent in Abuja that the leadership problems bedevilling the country can be solved if Nigerians look beyond sentiments and cast their votes for candidates that would take the nation to the promise land.
When asked why his party is not campaigning vigorously like other parties, he said much of what is going on including the amount of money being spent is already in breach of the law. He also regretted that the campaigns are associated with violence and intimidation.
“Some of those things may be recipe for disasters to follow; already we have seen incidences of violence, bomb attacks and so on. If we can’t get it right in the pre-elections events, there is every tendency that the post-election would be worse than what we are witnessing now,” Mani said.
He stressed the need for campaigns that are systematic and issue based, saying that is what his party is doing.
On his emergence as the running mate to Prof. Peter Nwangwu, he said he never contemplated competing on this level, but that he accepted it as a challenge.
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April polls last chance for Nigeria to get it right –ADC