Ex-Presidential Candidate Asks APC To Focus On Good Governance

A former Presidential candidate of National Conscience Party (NCP), Martin Onovo, has said that the nonchalant attitude of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) was responsible for the continued agitation for 2023 presidency instead of focusing on governance.
Onovo said that the 2023 presidential election might not hold if no meaningful change was made to the current status quo.
While speaking with newsmen on Wednesday, Onovo predicted that the electoral process would be hijacked and election results manipulated by the ‘cabals’ in the Presidency in 2023 if the current administration still remained in office, then.
“If Buhari is in office in 2023, then 2019 would repeat. If Buhari were out of office then there would be major political adjustments. Did election count in 2019? Was there such high number of registered voters and votes from Borno State presented by Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC)?” he asked.
While speaking on the need for equity in power rotation in the country, the former presidential candidate maintained that democracy required representation, fairness and justice and that representation at the highest level required that Nigeria zoned the presidency to the South-East, even though he stressed that it was too early to discuss 2023.
He said that the timetable from INEC might not happen until 2022, pointing out that the general situation of lawlessness was caused by the ruling party.
Onovo, however, supported the agitation for the amendment of the constitution, adding that there was no point amending the document if it would not be followed.
“I agree that it should be amended but ether it is amended or not people do not respect the constitution, would they respect the Electoral Act, I mean the cabal?” he querried.
Stressing the importance of justice, equity and representation, which according to him necessitated that every group should be treated fairly, Onovo, pointed out that campaign for the 2023 general election might be too early, but added that since the advent of the Fourth Republic in 1999, there had been a rotation of the presidency between the South and the North, stressing that the arrangement was practised during the 16 years of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rule, even though not constitutional.