The national leadership of the People’s Redemption Party, has vowed to defend the integrity of the party insisting that it is the only authentic party of the masses in the country.
The National Chairman of the PRP, Abdulmajid Yakubu Daudu, made the remarks at the National convention and Primaries of the party held in Kano on Saturday.
“Our job is to defend the integrity of the PRP as the authentic party of the talakawa’ (masses), and not of the ruling class and their lackeys,” he said.
According to him, the party remain committed to the state playing the leading role in the economy, believing that it is peoples growth and development that can make a country great, and not the cornering of national wealth by a handful of billionaires.
He called on members of the party to be wary of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s alleged antiques of planning to perpetuate himself in power by all means.
“We call on our People to be vigilant because of the mercenary politics that the Nation Generals used to undermine the June 12 election in the botched third Republic has been perfected by the Tinubu regime”.
The National Chairman who along with all his cabinet members were returned unopposed during the event, said the party (PRP) has made it clear that unlike the marketers who invited the deplorable members of the ruling class to join the party as springboard to power, politics is service and not private enterprises.
He said, “Because of President Tinubu’s alleged hold tied to power syndrome, today nearly all non-regime political parties are battling with mercenaries as willing tools of government to subvert and weaken the collective political opposition in order to impose a dominant party autocracy on the country.
“Therefore, under President Tinubu Nigeria has receded from consolidating democracy gains to enthroning autocracy under dominant party rules, the APC here as the ruling party is above the law.
Daudu noted that the separation of powers is allegedly non-existent while the legislature functions as an appendage of the executive and the Judiciary is increasingly seen as pliant to the regime.
“The state resources are today highly personalized, highly placed public office bearers have become overnight billionaires, no one is afraid of the Anti Corruption watchdogs who have become not only toothless, but impotent”.
The national chairman said they are not under any illusion that President Tinubu is willing to stay in power by all means, the INEC is nowhere near ready to be an independent umpire under its present mercurial leadership.
“Therefore, what we intend to do is to ensure that our elected representatives in this convention/primaries will be our foot soldiers in the continued struggle for freedom, social justice and development in Nigeria,” he added.
