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AHEAD OF 2023, UTOMI, JEGA, DUKE, OTHERS FORM A NEW PARTY “RNP”

By Chile Ocho

As the 2023 general elections approaches, some prominent Nigerians have established a a party known as Rescue Nigeria Project, RNP.

The party was formed as an alternative to the two leading political parties in Nigeria, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC).

Those responsible for the forming of the RNP are former presidential aspirant, Prof. Pat Utomi, former Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) Prof. Attahiru Jega, former Governor of Cross River State, Donald Duke, former Governor of Kwara State, Ahmed Abdulfatai, Usman Bugaje, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, Dr. Sadiq Gombe, Senator Lee Maeba, Dr. Rose Idi Danladi, among others.

Abdulfatai while delivering his keynote address, lamented the state of the nation, that the nation wanted a change in 2015 but “that change appears to be what we didn’t expect, as insecurity has taken over the nation.

“It is based on this that we decided to set up this Rescue Nigeria Project. We want to salvage this country and see how we can fix the mess. We want to set a template and key criteria leaders must have before they can attain any political position.

“Despite the great opportunities of the past, Nigeria has failed to live up to the dreams of its founding fathers and the hopes of successive generations of its citizens.

“Perhaps, at no other time have these failings become more apparent than in the past decade or so.

“In 2015, Nigerians overwhelmingly embraced the promise of change. These hopes have not only been dashed, but they have arguably turned out to be the worst political statements ever to be made in this country. Nigeria today appears set to fulfill all the prophesies of doom.”

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“Unprecedented nepotism and political exclusion have left the country more divided than ever as evident in the various separatists agitation that are threatening the corporate existence of the country itself.”

RNP National Coordinator, Usman Bugaje in his speach said: “when you reduce the problems of this country to what they are, ultimately, it all comes to leadership.

“We have been unable to exit the leadership conundrum precisely because the leadership recruitment mechanism in our political parties is so flawed that, except for accidents, they are incapable of producing competent leaders with the requisite knowledge, discipline and commitment to make a difference. We are living with, or better still, groaning under the consequences of this folly.

“What this means is that any attempt to rescue this country from its troubles must first rescue it from the current leadership recruitment mechanism that seems to leverage on money and connection or ethnic sentiments and no premium on knowledge or competence.

“The challenge is how to introduce a set of criteria or better still re-calibrate the recruitment mechanism in our political parties to prioritize knowledge, competence and character. The deepening crises in the political parties is all the more reason this re-calibration is necessary.

“We must change the conversation about leadership. The first thing we should want to know about our President is not which part of country he or she comes from, rather how competent is he or she? What is the content of his policy document? What is his team made up of?

“We also seek to ensure a seismic shift from the politics of big men to the politics of big ideas. The empty politics of big men have not taken us anywhere but down the drain. We simply can’t continue this way.”

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RNP’s vision is “to reconcile and re-unite our country, win and deploy political power for the purpose of nation building and national development, achieving prosperity for all, and the protection of life and dignity of every Nigerian citizen.”

“To reconcile, re-unite, mobilize the nation to build a critical mass of citizens capable of driving real and effective transformation, to translate the mass movement into a strong power base within an inclusive and responsive political framework.”

Prof. Tunde Adeniran, while speaking, noted that “You only rescue when there is disaster and when you fail to rescue during disaster, it is more dangerous.

“We have a disaster in our hands and we need to rescue the country. We need to look back and see how we get here. We know where Nigeria was before now. We know the task is not going to be easy, but we have to determine how to rescue the nation.”

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