Prof. Pat Utomi, the leader of the Big-Tenth, a political coalition pushing for the election of Peter Obi, the presidential candidate of the Labour Party, said yesterday that the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) should be holding rallies to apologize to Nigerians rather than making a show and preparing for a new election.
Utomi bemoaned the dishonesty of APC stalwarts who, rather than uphold the manifesto document, shamelessly jettisoned it without any form of regret. He gave a historical account of how the APC’s manifesto was drafted in his Lagos home.
He added that giving the presidency to any of the two political parties would be a catastrophe for Nigeria because of the deterioration of administration by the APC and the main opposition, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) support for transactional politics.
He said: “the Nigerian people have spoken, they have said they are tired of this old order; they will wait for us to release our manifesto then they will copy it, add some things and come out and shout this is our manifesto, but in their heads, they have no plans to implement them.
“They have all the monies they have taken from our treasury, they will use it to make flash of all of these things.I wrote the last one (manifesto) and I am saying to you that they didn’t implement the things we wrote. In fact at point they said who said we promised that, we didn’t promise it, it is some people who wrote it and called it our manifesto, we must hold people accountable.