The National Chairman of the Action Democratic Party (ADP), Engr. Yusuf Yabagi Sani, have said that the new party will shock the two main parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the main opposition People's Democratic Party (PDP).
The chairman of the new party, one of the three new parties registered by the INEC, said this when he spoke with newsmen yesterday in Abuja at the party’s national secretariat after its National Executive Committee’s meeting.
“We are prepared for the coming elections. Even before the INEC Chairman said the commission was prepared for the election, we were prepared; our members in various states are just waiting patiently for this day, registration and collection of our certificate of registration, which has come’’, he said.
“Believe you me we are ready because Nigerians are ready for the real change and not the cosmetic change that you have been seeing that have plunged us into what we are seeing today.
“We believe that all Nigerians have been waiting for us and this is the beginning the journey to greatness, a great nation, a safe place where you can live anywhere and do business anywhere. In Anambra State governorship election and other elections that are coming, you will see wonders”, he added.
Engr. Sani insisted that the party won't allow impunity to kill it like the PDP.
“Political parties as institutions have been taken for granted. Before we thought it was just a platform that people can use to run for an election but parties like APC and PDP are destroying the principles of political parties”.
“We have realized that it is unthinkable to talk about democracy without talking of political parties. Which means that political parties have the responsibility to make sure that democracy is entrenched and managed professionally.
“You don’t leave political parties in the hands of lame men or dropouts.
"Educated and enlightened people should manage political parties because whatever they do affects everybody. Let all Nigerians come together to rescue Nigeria”, he stated.