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The All Nigeria
Peoples Party National Secretary, Sa’idu Kumo, on Friday, chided
politicians for forming a mega party with the sole aim of defeating the
ruling People’s Democratic Party in 2011.

Mr. Kumo said that
the activities of the mega party had been more of “a political talk
show” that could not achieve the aim for which the group was formed.

He said that what the people needed to do to get PDP out of power was a well-defined and people-oriented political ideology.

“The problem with this country is that political parties are formed based on interest, and not ideology,” he said.

He said the ANPP
remained a vibrant opposition party that would not participate in any
mega party project, which, he said, would not succeed in removing the
PDP from government.

He appealed to
Nigerians to imbibe the culture of political tolerance and ideology to
save the country’s fledging democracy from total collapse.

The ANPP, he said,
had avoided open media abuse of rival political parties, and was more
interested in educating and sensitising the electorate on the need to
shun ‘money politics’ and embrace the politics of working for national
interest.

“Opposition is not all about abusing people,” he noted.

He, therefore, called on other smaller parties to join the ANPP to
build a strong opposition as “ANPP is the only strong opposition in
Nigerian politics with a standard structure to win election.”