APC can't win Presidential election in Nigeria

By Daniel Abia / Snr Correspondent P/Harcourt

Former President of Nigerian Bar Association, Mr. OCJ Okocha, has said that despite the crowd appeal the major opposition political party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) does not have what it takes to win the presidential election on March 28.

Okocha said that elections were not won by adorning the streets with posters and billboards but by entrenching the principles of democracy, which he said the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had done in the past 16 years.

Speaking on the political violence in Rivers State and across the country, the ex-NBA boss expressed disappointment that despite the peace accord signed by all the presidential candidates in Abuja and the governorship candidates in all the states, violence was still prevalent prior to the actual elections.

“I will want to hope that the accord signed by the presidential candidates at Abuja and the one signed by three of the leading gubernatorial candidates in Rivers State will work. These are all responsible citizens of Nigeria. They are citizens who have reached the level of being nominated by political parties to represent them at various elections throughout the land in the presidential election on March 28 and the next one on April 11 for the gubernatorial and House of Assembly seats.

“I want to hope that those who signed that accord will be responsible enough to insist that not only themselves but indeed their followers try as much as they can to allow peace to reign.

We want peace in Rivers State and in Nigeria.”