Prof. Christopher Imumolen, the presidential candidate for the Accord Party, claimed he avoided the APC and the PDP due of their “failures” during the past year.
After carefully examining both the APC and PDP, which he claimed had failed to provide Nigerians with the benefits of democracy, he stated he had made the decision to set up camp with the Accord.
He claims that I did not join the APC or PDP because I needed to leave a system that had failed to provide Nigerians with the benefits of democracy for nearly 20 years after the country’s restoration to democratic rule.
This was said by Imumolen in a statement that his campaign organization made available to the press on Wednesday.
“I decided not to join any of these so-called big political parties because I wanted a fresh perspective on governance.
“I told myself that if I wanted to be the agent of change that I really desired to be, I needed to make a clean break by dissociating myself from the system that never seems to work despite a host of very erudite fellows who have worked in it,” the statement read in part.
He compared Nigeria to a corporation that faced the same management challenges despite numerous efforts by various staff members to make a difference.
“It (Nigeria) is just like an organisation which keeps having the same problem again and again for say, 30 years. When you now notice that different solution proferred by those who are supposed to know is not working, the best thing to do will be to bring from outside the confines of that company someone who has not been tainted by the malaise that never seems to make things work in that organisation.
“I am that someone fresh from the outside who is untainted by the system, with no affiliations or any vested interests who will look at the country’s problems from a fresh prism and be better placed to solve them,” he said.
