It's absurd to have 91 political parties – Prof. Akintoye - Vanguard News

In this interview he speaks on the proliferation of political parties and against the background of the ideology that drove the parties of yore, he calls for a regulation on the establishment of political parties.It is peculiarly Nigerianit is absurd, that you have 91 political parties. And I am told that at least another 100 groups have applied to be recognized as political parties.

But in Nigeria, politics is entirely about power. Each of the people who want to go into politics want to see themselves in some sort of power. They don’t see themselves as contributing to a vision to a future, they see themselves as taking advantage now and what is available in order to build themselves up.

Large number of us educated people first from the Southwest and from all parts of Nigeria came together and surrounded the old man in an attempt to build a party that will build Nigeria into a great nation. The result was that we pushed together a party that had huge ambition for Nigeria, and we all participated in that ambition. We used to work very hard and putting the ideas, programmes together.

Nobody does that anymore. What everybody does is to build ambition around themselves, build his own power in his mind and then try to use the people around to make the power stand up. One, the type of things that we used to talk about in the Unity Party of Nigeria; the cardinal principles of citizenship. The right to good education; two the right to gainful employment for all Nigerians; three the right of the rural communities of Nigeria to have modern type of life which we called Integrated Rural Development, and things like that. If you go back to that you will discover that the number of political parties will whittle down quickly.

vanguardngr But it was people like him, who forced the Authority to register as many parties that come up, even if they can't win a polling unit. And the court ruled in it's favour.

Education Education Latest News, Education Education Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

‘Africa must tell their own story’ — Prof Eghagha - Vanguard News NigeriaNIGERIANS have been called to promote Africa dexterity, peculiarities and diversity in whatever way they chose for the development of the nation. This was the submission of scholars who spoke during the presentation of the book, ‘ International Sisi Eko, a collection of short stories put together by staff and students of English Department, University of Lagos. vanguardngr African may not develop beyond the stage it is right now. What African needs is young and vibrant leaders, whose mentality is completely different from person's like buhari. If not forget about Africa telling their own story.
Source: vanguardngrnews - 🏆 5. / 75 Read more »

Prof. Tahir reveals why Onnoghen should have resigned as CJN earlier - Daily Post NigeriaThe Vice-Chancellor of Baze University, Professor Maman Tahir, has reacted to the reported resignation of suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ewu awusa
Source: DailyPostNGR - 🏆 11. / 59 Read more »

Science and technology education in Nigeria needs rejigging — Prof Nebo - Vanguard News NigeriaThe immediate past Minister of Science and Technology, Professor Chinedu Ositadinma Nebo,has called for a reform of science and technology education in Nigeria, if the country’s quest to join the league of developed nations would be realized.
Source: vanguardngrnews - 🏆 5. / 75 Read more »

Don Seeks All-inclusive Efficient, Sustainable Financial Reporting System - THISDAYLIVEChika Amanze-Nwachuku A professor of Accounting at Babcock University, Prof. Ishola Akintoye has said that the current financial reporting system was inadequate to address the strategic earning of corporate and individual entities. This according to him is because sustainability accounting was yet to be incorporated in the current financial reporting. Delivering the university’s 28th inaugural …
Source: THISDAY LIVE - 🏆 14. / 51 Read more »