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Nigeria: What Party Now?

“Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.” The All Progressives Congress or the APC for short began its march to fame on the charge of saving Nigeria from the exploitation of the ruling PDP. The party enjoyed some immediate success with some governors joining its fold from the PDP. Some honourable members of the House of Representatives also dropped their umbrellas for the APC's broom. Indeed, the PDP looked at the time to be a ship in troubled waters. The party's publicity secretary Alhaji Lai Mohammed made sure the government was constantly on its toes with incessant criticism. Alhaji Lai by his constant presence in the media helped promote the APC's popularity as a brand and to a large extent he argued that the APC would do better give