The convention of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) will have historical significance which will resound for decades to come. The lights have been deemed across Nigeria by a gathering authoritarian spell. The convention is a necessary row back against the tidel wave of the despotism.
That the convention took place at all is a resounding victory for the forces of democracy.
Nigeria’s Tryst the Destiny was spelt out in a remarkable speech by the parties National secretary and former Osun State Governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola.
At no time people who deliberately split the People’s Democratic Party ,(PDP) and the Labour Party (LP) are today being falsely robbed as “political strategists”
Aregbesola spoke as a committed defender of the Democratic space and not as part of an “Aristocracy of Activitism”.
His astute analysis of today’s impasse is a clear rendition of the dilemma Nigeria is in today. The bottom line is that the authoritarian movement which has pushed Millions into poverty must be dismantled.
As Aregbesola pointed out in his speech “The ADC derives its existence from the aspirations and will of the Nigerian people who are tired of the deceit and colossal mismanagement to which this country is being subjugated.” This represent a summation of the present dysfunction system.
The eternal question is, What Is To Be Done? The answer is that a broad-based popular front must be coalesced and woven around the ADC and the other supporters of Democracy. A big-tent must be constructed based on a pro people-people agenda as a necessary step towards the formation after Democratic people of a Government of Popular Unity.
The ADC’s policy czar, professor Pat Utomi has already given a preliminary outline of a programme. It stresses the necessary inculcation of value-addition to all the frame work of a new political economy based on production rather than extract.
This will create a much needed sustainable new jobs and ensure social stability which will come of lessoning the availability of “ungoverned spaces which has led to recreation of habitats for non- state criminal activities.
Professor Utomi correctly stated that the emphasis in the manifesto of the ADC will be on, Jobs! Jobs!! Jobs!!!. This will capture the public mood.
The ADC has the phone call of Nigerians Democratic aspirations as spelt out as our yearnings. To quote India’s post-independence prime Pandit Nehru Tryst With Destiny. It is a historical duty that must be achieved.
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