ALHAJI Dauda Birmah, former Education minister in the Abacha regime and commissioner, Federal Character Commission between 1995 and 2001, is currently aspiring for the position of president on the platform of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP). In this interview, Birmah, stressed that corruption has wreaked a serious havoc on the Nigerian nation. He believes he has the solution for the nation’s multifarious problems. Excerpts:
There is this allegation that ANPP is has not been playing the role of an opposition and that the series of crises that have been rocking the party have not placed it on a right footing to offer a better leadership than the PDP. What is your reaction?
The crises recorded in our great party are not exclusive to ANPP. The ruling party has a dose of it also. But I want to tell you that the new leadership of the party headed by Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu has determined to give a positive direction. In the first place I decided to join the party in 2001 because I looked at the PDP and discovered there is nothing more it can offer. Some people in the party decided to join in the PDP-led government in what they termed as unity government.
But some of us did not buy that idea. The new leadership of our party does not subscribe to such an arrangement, the new leadership wants to do things differently. Our party has been positioned for better; we are not just trying to play the opposition role but to take over the reins of power at the centre. We are going to win the next election.
Read More:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2010/11/nigeria%E2%80%99s-major-problem-is-corruption-says-birmah/
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