{"id":110175,"date":"2024-01-17T18:41:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=110175"},"modified":"2024-01-17T18:41:05","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T17:41:05","slug":"2027-nigeria-will-rise-again-through-merger-of-parties-utomi-insists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/2027-nigeria-will-rise-again-through-merger-of-parties-utomi-insists\/","title":{"rendered":"2027: Nigeria will rise again through merger of parties, Utomi insists"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Renowned Political Economist, Prof. Pat Utomi,\u00a0 says his proposed merger of opposition parties to wrestle power from the All Progressives Congress (APC) in 2027 is not for \u2018machine politics\u2019 but for genuine service to the people.<\/div>\n
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\nUtomi, the Convener of the National Consultative Front (NCFront) and the BIG TENT disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday that the proposed merger party was not a hurried coupling together of interests.<\/p>\n

He was reacting to the comments by the Deputy National Organising Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Nze Chidi Duru, on his merger plans.<\/p>\n

Utomi had said that three presidential candidates in the 2023 general elections, Atiku Abubakar of the People\u2019s Democratic Party (PDP), Peter Obi of Labour Party (LP) and Rabiu Kwankwaso of the New Nigeria People\u2019s Party (NNPP), had agreed to form a formidable party that would sack the APC in 2027.<\/p>\n

According to the professor who is also a leader in the Labour Party, after having a conversation with the three political heavyweights, he agreed to form a mega party that would take over the country\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

He said that Nigerians needed people who would make sacrifices for the development of the nation.<\/p>\n

Duru described Utomi\u2019s plan in negative terms while the National Publicity Secretary of the APC, Felix Morka, had also described him as a serial promoter of mega parties which never materialised.<\/p>\n

Reacting, Utomi expressed confidence that through the merger initiative Nigeria would rise up again.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI read with interest the response by Nze Chidi Duru to speculations about what has been called a merger of opposition parties. That response itself is much evidence of progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cTo clarify, what I have been speaking to is not the hurried coupling together of interests to create a platform for machine politics like the Daley machine in Chicago to obtain desired elections outcomes and foist state capture on a wearied people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat I have been speaking to is the founding of a real political party. This is something that has eluded this fourth republic.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, their efforts begin with ideation that will birth a world view of this party. Some call it ideology.<\/p>\n

He added that his team would develop shared values around the approach to a people centered political party.<\/p>\n

Utomi said that the next would be a structure for community based solutions to the personal troubles of the people and the flow of what the people want into the policy process.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen agreement is reached on National Strategy, which from my agenda setting position, will be moving the country away from elite rent seeking and mindless corruption to production on value chains erected on our regional factor endowments in which we have latent comparative advantage.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe major issues we will adopt, such as constitutional reforms and the emphasizing of the principle of subsidiarity and bottom up people\u2019s entrepreneurial capitalism, will be agreed to before people sign up for leadership roles.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan old gladiators I have called out previously have a role? If they do a mea culpa and accept that this is about Nigeria and not themselves there will be room for embrace,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The NCFront leader pointed to the Malaysia feuds between Dr Mahathir Mohammed and Anwar Ibrahim who was his Deputy in 1997.<\/p>\n

He said that that led to imprisonment and much bad blood.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut when a very bad and corrupt government came up decades later, Mahathir Mohammed as a Nonagenarian, came out of retirement, founded a new party and in partnership with Anwar Ibrahim won the election against the incumbent, Najib Razak.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are confident that through our efforts in this initiative, Nigeria will rise up again,\u201d Utomi\u00a0 stressed.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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