Contrary to the view in many quarters, the 2015 Nigeria Presidential election is not about Fashola or Oshiomole or Buhari, it is about a lasting structure to build a lasting democracy, and main opposition APC style as of now, cannot defeat the ruling PDP unless EPS is adopted.
PDP requires only 25% in most the states under APC and will still keep the South-East and South-South votes to win the presidency. It is the bitter truth.
The only life line for the APC is the recommendation on Expanded Primary System, EPS, which will make APC a grassroots party and easily it will be able to win the presidency if the party can run away from godfather mentality of kowtowing to General Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu, and give everyone the opportunity to grow; but what they have now can only fetch them couple of states in 2015.
The first American President George Washington told his country not to build their democracy around him but build it on institutions because a government system built around individuals will only give temporary solution, institution will take a nation up. In July President Obama delivered a speech in South Africa asking leaders in Africa to focus on three areas, Opportunities, Democracy and Peace.
EPS will provide opportunities for all politicians to grow, not the recycled leaders from the military days. With EPS the country can realize its full potentials from the pool of leaders that will emerge, and EPS will bring the lasting peace in our body politics in which tribalism and religion will be forced to play a back role. But the greatest set back to this may be the ambitions of General Buhari and Asiwaju Tinubu in 2015, which APC is planning to lose the election if EPS is not taken on the primary face.
This is the bitter truth; think about it! What will four more years look like under President Ebele Jonathan? Not because he can do anything or effect a change, it will be for the failure of the leaders of APC to adopt a different strategy to bring the party to the grassroots of the electorates.
All lovers of change in 2015 to ask Buhari, Ikimi, and Tinubu to adopt EPS or prepare to watch President Jonathan’s re-election from the sidelines as he wins four more years. Those asking Buhari to be the 2015 candidate of Party without EPS must be ready to accept the verdict of the electorates when President Jonathan wins again. If the General can win the nomination of the party through EPS nothing can stop him from winning the presidency anything beside this is failure for APC. Williams Shakespeare said in one of his plays Julius Caesar, “the eyes sees not itself except by other reflections.” APC right now is a party of the blind in the darkness, they need a generator or light to see.
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