By; BAYO AKAMO, Ibadan
The Peoples Alternative Political Movement [TPAP-M) on Monday attributed the nation’s problem to ” historical incompetence and the congenital greed of the country’s corrupt and ruining ruling class that uses the exploitative,
Addressing a press conference in Ibadan, the Oyo state coordinator of the movement, Comrade Shola Omorege lamented that the on going ethnic separatists agitation in the country are not going to serve interest of Nigeria masses.
According to Comrade Omorege, the separatists are not also capable of addressing the misery and poverty of the people particularly, the Nigeria masses .
” We are very clear about the root causes of our existential crisis. It is the historical incompetence and the congenital greed of the country’s corrupt and ruining ruling class that uses the exploitative, destructive and repressive capitalist system over which it presides.”, he said.
Comrade Omorege, ” we are equally not ambiguous about what is ultimately required to address the crisis and salvage our country and her peoples – the displacement of this light fingered and treasury looting ruling class from power, and the elevation of the working class and labouring masses of our people to the state where they can exercise legitimate democratic control and management of the political and economic life and processes of our country”.
TPAP-M Coordinator stressed that the present agitations in most parts of Nigeria ” is a most manifest indication of the grievous failure and catastrophic incompetence of Nigeria’s ruling class that 61 years after the departure of the colonial regime”.
He emphasized that ” separatist and secessionist agitations have become not only incessant, but have also assumed greater stridency”.
” Our position on ethnic separatist agitation, including secessionist demands, is that they are not going to serve the interests of the masses of Nigeria’s working people, nor are they capable of addressing the misery and poverty of our people”
He said ” the main point of our objection is that it is unlikely that Nigeria can be broken up peacefully. Secondly, even if a peaceful breakup can be negotiated, very massive economic and social dislocations akin to a war will occur. And thirdly, this ruling class and its various fractions have been proved by their precedents to be historically incapable of building and managing a society based on social justice and equitable access to opportunities and distribution of societal wealth,”
” In this situation, it is only the oppressed class and its allies that can stabilise the polity by equalising opportunities across the existing multiplicity of primordial and confessional divides”.
