Great people of Nigeria, please permit me this simple boast: credit me as the original, authentic founder of a great, brand new party in Nigeria. And that party shall be registered to answer the name All Defected People’s Party of Nigeria (ADPPN). Having been around in this country for some time now and having seen this great need to fulfill, I have thought it necessary to found a unique, novel, amazing and all-embracing political association and to seek registration for it. And that party shall be known, registered, called and hailed as All Defected People’s Party of Nigeria. It shall be a party for all joiners and no room for founders having been founded by an able and foresighted founder already. But no one who has not defected from one of our numerous but the same character political party to another shall be eligible to be a member.
This great party shall be for all Nigerian politicians, young and old, who have ever defected or are intent on ever defecting to another political party in order to ever realize their ever shifting political goals or ambitions. The thing is, you must have defection in your DNA.
Our motivation? Given the rate at which most members of our existing registered political parties in the country are defecting from one party to another for whatever reasons, chances are that by this time next year, none of the current parties will still be in place for anyone to run for any office on their platform. The great foresight is that this new party of mine will be the one on ground, standing strong and firm for anyone with an ambition to canvas for support from the people! This party shall be in place to accommodate all the defected politicians and make them remain in one recognizable political group for a reasonable time or fairly long enough time to plan their strategies and accomplish them for the good of Nigeria and her peoples. And I think that the party that would be on ground with a name appropriate to answer that need should be All Defected People’s Party of Nigeria with the abbreviation ADPPN.
Would you not praise my initiative? From the sincerity of my heart I believe that I have done my nation a great political good because we are witnessing today founders, and those we used to call ‘’movers and shakers’’ of a particular party defecting in droves to other parties, most likely the ruling party at the federal level.
The great obvious question that pushed me to action is: what has become so fundamentally wrong with existing ordinarily looking strong parties that members have suddenly found them so unappealing to belong to them anymore and are therefore migrating in droves to other parties, including ones they used to denounce only days before? Just what is it? Can anyone with an answer please do me the favour of providing a convincing rationale?
Nigeria my country is a country of great bewilderment. But this trend is the most bewildering of them all. Who can explain this unusual phenomenon to me who lacks a basic political understanding of what is going on in our shores?
As the founder of this potentially great party, I want to lay one ground rule and that rule is that intending new members should desist from practicing their old trade of defecting once they are accepted and registered as authentic card carrying members of the party. I wish to also state that three of our core values are: (1) politics without integrity,(2) Politics without ideology in anything,(3) Do as you like; no one will feel offended. Do whatever it is you feel like doing without any feeling of conscience or shame or reproach. Anything that you instinctively feel is good to do go right ahead and do it without blushing or giving a damn. This is Nigeria. Anyone who does not like what you are doing, allow him to go ahead and do his own doing even if what he wants to do is worse than the very thing he is complaining about you or to you. Do they not know that our country has gone to the dogs? That, everything worth doing for public consumption is what you feel is good enough? Are we not in the era of belief in fundamental human rights to outdo others in public wrong doing? This is an era of impunity in political thinking and action.try your best to outdo the most outrageous the other fellow just did that people through their silence or public commendation have just supported or applauded.
This great party of ours shall be a party that records a piece of Nigeria’s history as well as run a commentary on the moral climate of the country at a particular point in time. But whether because of its historicity or contemporary commentary about a noticeable ill, it shall be a privilege to belong to this one. For me it is a greater privilege that I am not just a member but a founder and its spiritual director and ideologue at the same time. Congratulate me, please if you will.
There was a time in our country when the names of great men and women in party politics became synonymous with the identities of their parties. Awo was AG or UPN; Shagari, NPN; Aminu Kano, NEPU or People’s Redemption party PRP. But those days, it seems, are firmly gone. Soon to go may be politics without parties if care is not taken.
