Some Nigerians from the political class have floated a third force they christened Rescue Nigeria Project ( RNP) to give Nigerians a choice away from the two main political parties, the ruling All Progressives Congress APC and the Peoples Democratic Party PDP.
The founders of the new platform includes renowned economist, Prof. Pat Utomi, Usman Bugaje, forner Governor of Cross Rivers State,Donald Duke and former Governor of Kwara state, AhmedAbdulfatai.
Others are former chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC,Prof. Attahiru Jega, Senator Lee Maeba, Ambassador Nkoyo Toyo,Prof. Tunde Adeniran, Yomi Awoniyi, Dr Sadiq Gombe and Dr Rose Idi Danladi .
,Abdulfatai in his keynote address lamented the state of the nation saying the change Nigerians embraced in 2015 appears to have exacerbate insecurity nepotism.and political exclusion which has resulted in agitations by different ethnic groups
The RNP he said aimed to rescue the country from its current state of woes.
” It is based on this that we decided to set up the Rescue Nigeria Project. We want to salvage this country and see how we can fix this mess. We want to set a template and key criteria leaders must have before they can attain any political positiion.”
In his opening remarks, National Coordinator of the TOP, Mr Usman Bugaje identified incompetent leadership as the cause of the present state of the country.
” 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”he said
