Tambuwal: APC’ll Make Nigeria Bastion of True Democracy
Aminu Tambuwal
Sokoto Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal,
has said the All Progressives Congress (APC) is fighting a noble cause
with the aim of transforming the country into a true bastion of
democracy, where the interest of the common man is placed above any
other consideration..
Speaking at a two-day National
Conference on the Dynamics of Democratic Practice in Nigeria: 1999-2015,
held at the Centre for Democratic Research and Training, Bayero
University, Kano, Tambuwal stated that each nation practices democracy
according to its historical and cultural peculiarities.
He said the people of the country must be constantly carried a long, consulted and their views incorporated.
Governor Tambuwal stressed that power
belongs to the people and that elected political office holders are mere
caretakers of the estate whose true owners are the people.
He pointed out that it was the right of
the people to keep abreast of government policies and programmes and
demand explanation for anything they did not understand.
“It is the right of citizens in a
democracy to express their views and to make the leaders accountable,” a
statement issued in Sokoto Thursday by Tambuwal’s spokesman, Malam Imam
Imam, quoted the former Speaker of the House of Representatives as
saying.
According to him, there is no power like
peoples power, and that once the people unite behind a cause, there is
no problem they cannot surmount.
“Such kind of support that led to the victory of APC in the last election,” he added.
On the American election, Tambuwal stated that the election of Donald Trump was a clear evidence of democratic dynamism.
“What we thought would be the outcome of
America’s presidential election wasn’t what we woke up to hear and this
has clearly shown to all the level of dynamism inherent in democratic
system of government,” he said..
In his remarks, Kano state governor, Dr.
Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, stressed the need for respect of the indices of
genuine democracy in a way citizens of the country would be made to
have a sense of belonging, affirming that the two day conference was
poised to address knotty issues.
Ganduje, who was represented by his
deputy, Professor Hafiz Abubakar, hailed the wisdom and foresight of the
conveners of the conference which he said had come at the time the
political class is supposed to grasp the rule of the game on ground.
A Tiv cultural organization from Benue
State decorated Tambuwal with traditional attires for his promotion of
cultural diversity in the country.
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