Third Force Blames Leadership Failure For Nigeria’s Woes

RESCUE Nigeria Project ( RNP) has blamed the country’s woes on the flawed selection of flag- bearers by political parties.

The third force in the country’s politics alleged that political parties do not prioritise knowledge or character, but wealth or connection, while selecting their point men.

It disclosed this, in Abuja, while inaugurating its zonal and state coordinators to recruit members and mobilise groups for an alternative political leadership to rescue the country from its doldrums.

At the event, the National Coordinator of RNP, Usman Bugaje, said that no citizen with conscience would allow his country to be run aground by greedy politicians whose objective of attaining power appear to be self- aggrandisement and embezzlement.

He said: “No sensible citizen would continue to ignore the consequences of allowing this kind of political culture to hold sway, having seen the dangerous trajectory it has set our country on. We are convinced that we can’t leave politics to politicians anymore. At the sorry state where our country is today, we actually need statesmen, not politicians, whose vision is beyond the next election.

“We are glad to report that since our public debut at the end of September last year, we have been contacted by nearly a dozen groups across the country, who are equally concerned about the future of our country. We have already agreed to work together to create the necessary synergy required to rescue our country from the cliff it has been driven to by our bad politics.”

He urges the newly inaugurated coordinators to identify competent and credible people, to build a team around Nigerians for a collegiate leadership system.