A former Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, says Nigerians can no longer tolerate bad leadership in the country.
Jega stated this on Friday in Abuja during the inauguration of a 35-member People’s Redemption Party (PRP) Policy Advisory Committee (PPAC).
According to the erstwhile boss of Nigeria’s electoral umpire, who is a member of the committee, Nigeria’s political space needed cleansing, urging Nigerians to contribute their own quota to realise that dream.
“All hands must be on deck to sanitise Nigerians on the electoral process. I believe that all Nigerians can no longer sit on the fence as everybody needs to contribute to the cleansing of politics in Nigeria. There should be no fence-sitters; our future is at stake. We cannot allow bad people to continue to govern us or misgovern us and continue to wreck our country and its future,” he said.
He assured that he would help members of the committee to prepare position papers, policy criticisms and policy frameworks that would make PRP a strong political party that could win elections.
Speaking earlier, the National Chairman, PRP, Alhaji Falalu Bello, said the slogan of the committee being, “Harvesting Nigeria’s Intellectual Vineyard” was a demonstration of the committee being thoroughbred intellectuals drawn from a wide field of specialization and experience in Nigeria’s intellectual.
