One of the newly registered 21 political parties in Nigeria, the Grassroots Development Party of Nigeria (GDPN) has said that the quest for Nigerians to own the party and be able to displaced the ruling APC was one of the reasons why there is no room for god-fatherism in the party.
The National Publicity Secretary of the party, Barrister Yelwa Abubakar said on Thursday in Abuja that GDPN is a party that has come to bridge the gap between the aged, the youths and women.
According to her, the party has membership of over five million Nigerians in 25 countries, without god-father, as they have been building the structures since January 2017.
“The youths will be giving 35 percent chance of participation in the party. Nigerian youths should stop collecting peanuts from the old generation who should have honorably relinquish powers to them and join force with GDPN and take over powers from them since they have lost ideal on how to govern the country.
“Our ideology is simple to reduce the movement of people from the rural areas to the urban. Everybody want to go to Abuja, Lagos, Kano and others because they believe there is where it is happening, the development that is making people to move from the rural areas to urban areas same development GDPN will make sure the rural areas have it too,” she said.
Also speaking the national chairman of the party, Ambassador Odion Cedrack said that the current leadership of the country has failed and as such no reasonable nation would have anything to do with such a party that has recorded such monumental failure in it leadership. “Nigerians should shun them in subsequent elections because they promised the people change but the end up giving them hardship. The APC led government should prepare its hand over note because they cannot fool the masses the second time again,” he said.
He said that his party which has been on ground since 2017 has leadership in all the 36 states of the federation and FCT and will present a presidential candidate and other positions in the 2019 General Elections.
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