The Labour party (LP) has called on Nigerians to ensure they vote out the current bad leaders in government at all levels even as the country prepare for another general elections.
The party in a New Year message issued in Abuja by the National Secretary of the party Dr. Kayode Ajulo, also tasked the people not to despair in spite of all that happened in the year 2014 but rather be hopeful and see year 2015 as year pregnant with momentous changes and positive turn around.
The statement sounded a note of caution that such hope would only come to fruition if Nigerians once and for all resolved to make a clean break with attitude of cold complacency and fatalistic acquiescence to their oppressed state.
“The people need to say no to violence. The people must say no to arson. The people must say no to untimely death occasioned by neglect at all levels and petty politicking. The people must say no to poor standard of living. And over and above all, the people must be masters of their destiny.
Barrister Ajulo said, “the most appropriate way for Nigerians to say this is by making effective use of their vote to show bad leaders the way out, while putting sentiment aside and taking each aspirant on their merit in the upcoming general election.”
According to Ajulo, the spate of insurgency, marked by killing of innocent citizens, kidnapping of men, women and school girls, seizure of Nigerian territory and sacking of communities, large and small, represent the most classic exemplar of what he called ‘madness’ on national scale.
He said “this degeneration was even made more manifest by the way the political class, both in government and outside, has turned the plight of the masses into a tool for petty politicking and bargaining chips instead of facing the issue squarely.
“It is equally significant that while the year was ushered in at the first and second quarter by such promising events as the National Conference and the World Economic Forum (WEF) the outcome have been lots of disappointment. On the one hand is the repeated attempt to frustrate the full implementation of the resolutions of the confab, and on the other the downturn in economic performance in spite of so-called rebasing of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
“Politically, 2014 represent a year of crass opportunism, political prostitution and pedestrian populism. It was a year that saw individuals Nigerians ordinarily should look up to as statesmen running lies at the ballpoint of their pen in the name of Their (My)Watch. It is such a year that a people should stand up, look back at and collectively spit at and say: never again!”
