Thursday, January 17, 2008

Danger in the President




National Chairman and presidential candidate of the African Liberation Party (ALP), Emmanuel Okereke, has raised alarm over the "dangerous character" of the Umaru Yar’Adua presidency.

He warned that "President Yar’Adua may turn out to be more dangerous than former President Olusegun Obasanjo".



"And what is worse, he filled the panel with card-carrying members of his party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). You can quote me on that: almost all of them are PDP members. So the whole thing is not meant to serve any reformist purpose; it is not meant to reform anything, and that is why our party is not sending any memoranda to it. We do not believe in it and neither do we recognise it.

Read the full story here.

This article addresses the recent election of Nigerian President Umaru Yar’Adua. Emmanuel Okereke has questioned President Yar’Adua’s goals as president of Nigeria, and he has questioned his character. This is just the beginning of what could be a series of questions regarding President Yar’Adua and his policies. This questioning affects Nigeria’s legitimacy which can affect the people’s feelings that the government has a right to rule and implement legislation.

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