By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Even though by 2015, the
ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had performed below the high expectations
of many Nigerians and had rightly earned their rejection, I highly dreaded the disastrous
possibility of Nigerians falling for the massive, overwhelming but vacuous
propaganda of the All Progressives Congress (APC), backed by a formidable
coalition of tragically naïve activists, intellectuals and opinion leaders, to
seriously consider that the APC could by the widest stretch of the imagination,
qualify as even a manageable alternative.
There was massive
corruption in the PDP, but it was just impossible for me to buy the tasteless myth
that the APC which was mostly made up of the very characters that gave the PDP
its unwholesome image could, no matter the relentless efforts of their tireless
spin doctors, qualify to be classed as something that has the slightest resemblance
with a party of saints and an assemblage change agents, and that once a person
moved from the PDP to the APC, the person would receive instant beatification
from a band of holy angels waiting to perform that sacred assignment. This
should make no sense even to a two-year old!
