{"id":757439,"date":"2019-12-03T19:28:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:28:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/12\/03\/no-political-party-is-playing-opposition-role-diligently-apc\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T19:28:16","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T19:28:16","slug":"no-political-party-is-playing-opposition-role-diligently-apc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/03\/no-political-party-is-playing-opposition-role-diligently-apc\/","title":{"rendered":"No Political Party Is Playing Opposition Role Diligently: APC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<figure id=\"attachment_647079\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-647079\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-647079\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/2019-election-apc-chieftain-thousands-of-supporters-decamp-to-pdp-in-kebbi-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"Flag of APC and PDP\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\"  \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-647079\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag of APC and PDP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) has stated that it is sad that no political party is playing the opposition role diligently because it is dampening the country\u2019s democracy.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Party\u2019s spokesman, Lanre Issa Onilu, who spoke via a statement he made public,\u00a0 the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has shown in recent times that it is incapable of functioning in the role.<\/p>\n<p>He then called on other Parties to step up and come forward with better opposition.<\/p>\n<p>He said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo doubt, our country deserves a strong and vibrant opposition to play its conventional role in the polity and to deepen democracy. The PDP has shown crass and shocking incapacity to perform that role,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read Also:\u00a0APC Distances Self From \u2018Charlatan\u2019 Seeking Constitutional Amendment For Buhari\u2019s Third Term<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a party that believes in democracy and progressive politics, we are worried by this obvious vacuum. No rigorous and intelligent interrogation of the current administration\u2019s policies and programmes by the PDP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust idle chatter, propagation of fake news, post-election delusions and other unpatriotic conducts. This is dangerous for our democracy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe APC hereby invites other registered political parties to step up and perform the crucial opposition role the PDP has failed so woefully to play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>              &#13;\n                    <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flag of APC and PDP The ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) has stated that it is sad that no political party is playing the opposition role diligently because it is dampening the country\u2019s democracy. According to the Party\u2019s spokesman, Lanre Issa Onilu, who spoke via a statement he made public,\u00a0 the Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) has shown [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":714878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>No Political Party Is Playing Opposition Role Diligently: APC - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/12\/03\/no-political-party-is-playing-opposition-role-diligently-apc\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"No Political Party Is Playing Opposition Role Diligently: APC - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Flag of APC and PDP The ruling All Progressive Congress(APC) has stated that it is sad that no political party is playing the opposition role diligently because it is dampening the country\u2019s democracy. 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