By Emmanuel
Atabat
The Plateau State Chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Chief Amb.
Nanyah Andrew Daman has decried the absence of ideology in Nigeria’s political
parties which according to him, is the main reason why political parties cannot
prioritize the needs of the citizens.
Chief Daman made this submission while inaugurating four committees that
would work toward laying the basis for a solid structure of the party in
Plateau State at the party secretariat situated at No. 7 Dogon Karfe Jos, last
week. According to him, “the absence of ideology in political parties is of
utmost concern because parties are no longer after ideas and doctrines.
Political parties in the country have many similarities than differences and
this has only created conflict between them for status which has placed the
masses at the receiving end, since the advent of the democratic dispensation in
1999.
There is no political party in Nigeria since 1999 that has offered anything
special to differentiate it from others. So all they talked about is what the
ruling party is not doing for the people and used this as bait for the citizens
without any clear definitions of how they intend to achieve what is inculcated
in their so-called manifesto. As a matter of fact, some of them lack manifestos
and it has become obvious that candidates contesting elections into various
offices under these parties only relied in the party’s ability to rig elections
for them. The outcome of such menace is clearly manifesting as witnessed in
dilapidated infrastructure across the country despite huge amount of money
budgeted for them”. He said that the system has only produced unfocused and
reckless leadership that has no interest of the masses at heart.
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| Chief Ambassador Nanyah Andrew Daman JP ADP Chairman, Plateau State. |
Chief Daman said that it is for the above reasons that the ADP was formed
to entrench true democracy beginning from the party by way of entrenching
internal democracy where the wish of the people would prevail. According to
him, true democracy must revolve around the people, adding that it is for this
reason that the ADP is structured in such a manner that it is people oriented.
“Once you are a registered member in ADP, you are a stake holder with equal
status with other members irrespective of status in the society because ours is
a party that is people centered.
There is no “big man” in the country that can boast of financing our party.
The farmer in the village and the senator or minister of the federal republic
who have registered all have equal status and say in our party and they all
qualify as delegates during our party primaries. We don’t have provision for
special delegates. You can see that these are some of the major differences
between our party and others”.
The chairman said that he was highly surprised at the turn out of people in
the state for registration. He further charged the committee members to see
their assignment as an opportunity to also contribute their quota towards
librating the masses and deepening of democracy.
The committees are that of Finance, Contact and Mobilization, Media and
Publicity as well as Strategic Planning and Research to be chaired by Prince
Pam Dachugyang, Comrade Yusuph Dilas, Auta Danjuma and Tabitha Goselle
respectively.
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