Fw: PRESS RELEASE: ACTIVISTS CALL FOR NEW PARTY

[Jaye Gaskia]

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Subject: PRESS RELEASE: ACTIVISTS CALL FOR NEW PARTY

Dear colleagues,

Please, find below a press statement. We do count on your support for wide dissemination via your network.

DEMOCRACY DAY: WE NEED ANOTHER POLITICAL PARTY BASED ON TRADITIONS OF MASS PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS  SAY

As the nation marked 13 years of return to civil rule and first year of President Goodluck Jonathan’s election on May 29, 2012, a collection of five civil rights activists met in Abuja, and have advocated the creation of a new political party with which to wrest power from the current political elite. The collective, which issued a statement titled “FROM PROTEST TO POWER, STREET TO SERVICE: A CLARION CALL TO ACTIVISTS AND COMPATRIOTS FOR URGENT POLITICAL ACTION TO SALVAGE OUR COUNTRY NIGERIA!” argued that the current political arrangements will not alleviate suffering nor put the nation on the proper leadership pedestal in Africa and the world.

The activists chronicled the rise of protest movements, especially the most recent ones precipitated by the crisis of the global market system leading to the collapse of large corporations and national economies. “In Nigeria, this deep rooted crisis of neo-liberalism is compounded by the epochal ineptitude, political and economic incompetence, as well as the selfish pecuniary interests of a parochial, provincial, pedestrian, and thieving treasury looting ruling class and political elite,” the statement said.

The activists then proposed that following the ‘January Uprising’ in Nigeria, “A definite and clear-cut alternative to deprivation, autocracy and the political and economic brigandage of the global ruling class must be built.” It argued further: “This clear-cut political alternative which will reorganize society and implement an alternative economic policy framework that will prioritise people over profits, and wellbeing over growth; can only be organised by the elemental forces central to the organisation, mobilisation and coordination of the global resistance in each country.” They said the experience of Greece is very instructive in the rise and emergent electoral superiority of the radical left; an experience already presaged and buttressed in the victories on the organised radical and popular left movements in Latin America, in country after country since the last decade.

In the statement signed by Odoh Diego Okenyodo, Oluwole Elegbede, Gbenro Olajuyigbe, Tunde Aremu, and Jaye Gaskia, released on takebacknigeria.blogspot.com, the activists declared: “We commit to deepening the mass resistance on the streets and in the workplaces, consolidating on the gains of the January Uprising in building such a party.” They called on other activists and compatriots that believe in the necessity of this course of action, contribute ideas to the production and circulation of a manifesto for such a party.

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•             Odoh Diego Okenyodo (08091443322)

•             Oluwole Elegbede (08033311478)

•             Gbenro Olajuyigbe (08055081933)

•             Tunde Aremu (08023180493)

•             Jaye Gaskia (08033105107)

 

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