Leadership hurdles for merger and megastructure of opposition parties

THE option of collapse to party constructions In opposition evenings, has evolve A mega to party that rivals their decision counterpart, East not new. Often difficult For THE marriage of convenience are direction concessions And What becomes of THE union After power has has been captured, MUYIWA ADEYEMI reports.

The recent disclosure by THE policy economist, Teacher. Tap Utomi, that leading opposition evenings In Nigeria are closing ranks has form A formidable to party has return All Progressives Congress (APC) has has been generator mixed reactions Since Nigerians.

While a few Express optimism that THE future together of THE Peoples Democratic To party (PDP), Work To party (LP), And New Nigeria People To party (NNPP) will to strenghten Nigeria democracy And put THE decision to party on It is toes, others rejected he as THE pious thought of THE LP leader.

HAS her reviews, Utomi was among THE people WHO begin THE idea of A third force during THE 2015 general elections which, they said, will dispatch both APC And PDP In THE garbage can of history, but When he failed they evoked THE idea of A Mega To party that did not fly.

Utomi reviews said those WHO believed In him And look Before has THE collapse of these three evenings In A will be disappointed. Indeed, A critical said Utomi was monologue.

Always express their pessimism about THE propose merger, they argued that Before THE 2023 general elections, all supplications by prominent Nigerians has convince both LP presidential candidate Rock Obi And her PPNN counterpart, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has bury their staff ambitions And work together In THE interest of their teeming supporters failed. HAS them, he will be difficult For THE PDP presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has give up her presidential ambition once he East always in good health And agile.

Opposition evenings merger together has form A formidable platform give a challenge THE decision to party East not A novel idea has Nigeria politics.

Teacher. Siyan Oyewso recalled that In THE second Republic (1979 –1983), there was A merger of policy evenings, which included THE policy gladiators of THE time.

"They included THE 'beautiful bride' of Nigerian policy, Doctor Nnamdi Azikiwé of Nigerian Peoples To party (NPP), Obafemi Awolowo of THE Unit To party of Nigeria (UPN), Aminu Kano directed People Redemption To party (PRP) And THE Great Nigerian Peoples To party (GNPP) directed by Ibrahim Waziri.

"These great The politicians came together And shape THE Peoples Progressive Alliance (PPA) against THE dominant And decision to party In Nigeria has THE time – THE National To party of Nigeria (NPN). But they could not reach A agreement on THE direction structure of THE alliance. »

However, THE policy hegemony of THE PDP was truncated In 2015 because of THE future together of THE Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Congress For Progressive Change (CPC), All Nigerians Peoples To party (ANPP), to break up faction of All Progressives Grandiose Alliance (APGA) And THE new-PDP has form APC In FEBRUARY 2013.

Before THE training of APC, THE PDP, which pride himself as THE the biggest policy to party In Africa said he was going has ruler Nigeria For 60 years uninterrupted, but future together of THE opposition evenings finished It is reign In 16 years, And Since 2015 When THE to party lost presidential election, he has has been in trouble has keep It is head afloat.

Indeed, Utomi postulation has has been THE wish of a few policy analysts, saying that despite THE do that THE Electoral Act of 2022 allow For multi-party system has give Nigerians THE opportunity has freely express their rights, fusion of a lot little evenings, voluntarily by THE stakeholders, In two would be allow For serious competition that will TO DO elections less predictable. Nigeria Currently has 18 policy evenings registered by THE Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), but only five – APC, PDP, LP, APGA And NNPP- to have presence In THE National Assembly.

However, despite a lot policy evenings In THE United Kingdom, only THE Conservative To party And Work To party to have has been forming government Since THE 1920s while Democratic To party And THE Republican To party to have has been THE two the biggest evenings In THE United States Since 1850. Both evenings are big And strong enough has favorably compete In their countries And to have has been provide alternatives For THE voters.

Emphasizing on THE need For THE training of THE new to party, Teacher. Utomi said: "What We need are people WHO sacrificially give up themselves has build A great country with their possible reward be immortality. When I talked has several of THE presidential candidates In THE last run about This track We are traveling; Yes, I have had conversations with Atiku Abubakar, I have had conversations with Rabiu Kwankwaso, I to have had conversations with Rock Gregory Obi And THE people as Ralph GOOD Nwosu of CDA are a few of those that would be probably constitute a few of THE base.

"And I have said has them...