2019: Chris Okotie wants APC, PDP to adopt him as consensus presidential candidate
As Nigeria heads to another election year in 2019, a former presidential candidate of the Fresh Democratic Party (FDP), Rev. Chris Okotie has approached the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the leading opposition political party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), to jointly adopt him as their consensus candidate for the election.
Okotie in separate letters addressed to the chairman of both the APC, Adams Oshiomhole and his PDP counterpart, Uche Secondus, said he decided to seek their endorsement in view of the current dire state of the nation, which he said requires drastic measures to address.
In the letters which he personally signed, Okotie said, if his suggestion is acceptable by them and he emerge as the next Nigerian President, he intends to set up a new political order for the country, where the legislature would merge with the judiciary to create a unique system of judicature that administers justice and shares the enactment of legislative responsibilities with the Presidency.
According to him, “Nigeria is in dire need of restructuring. Our federalism is simply terminological in exactitude. It is a realistic piece of fakery.
“My mandate, therefore, will be to set up an interim government which I have christened Government of National Reconciliation and Reconstruction, as the mechanical instrumentality for the crystallisation of the new Nigeria of our dreams.
“It would be predicated on a new concept of Aboriginal democracy. Our current democracy has been hijacked by elitism, mysticism and Satanism. Aboriginal democracy will focus on cultural historicity, evolutional modernity and global relativity as the necessary ingredients of our evolutional political indigenisation.
“Under this system, the current legislature would merge with the judiciary to create a unique judicature that administers justice and shares the enactment of legislative responsibilities with the Presidency”.
He said Nigeria needs “A man who is completely insulated from the variegated conflicts that mark the antecedents of our major political actors.
“A man with the requisite intellectual capacity and moral perpendicularity”, and stressed “I believe that the benevolent grace of God has telescoped these virtues into my person, to prepare me for such a time as this.”
He added: “Nigeria has become a divided and segregated society like never before. We have become polarised by ethnicity; we have become balkanised by religious fundamentalism. We have become fractured by political insensitivity and leadership disability.
“Times like these require the recruitment of patriotic gladiators who must now take up the gauntlet to defend the Nigerian dream. I believe we are conditioned by our circumstances to rise to the occasion of our reality”.
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“Nigeria is in dire need of restructuring. Our federalism is simply terminological in exactitude. It is a realistic piece of fakery”. – Chris Okotie
