Browsing: Opposition

The Deputy Apex leader of Ndigbo in Lagos APC, Sir Jude Idimogu, appealed to opposition parties to allow President Bola Tinubu breathe and concentrate on governance in the interest of the masses.

Idimogu, the immediate past two-term lawmaker, who represented Oshodi-Isolo Constituency II in the Lagos State House of Assembly,  made the appeal Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos.

There is a popular saying that you can not give what you do not have. This popular saying has a strong bearing with the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Osun state, which seemed tucked in its woeful idea of governance that it continues to remind us of the horrible experience that its ruinous time in the government of this state reflected. 

In the penultimate paragraph of my last article, where I wrote about restructuring the Federal Executive Council to make it more efficient, I mentioned that “governance isn’t rocket science. Neither is it guesswork. It’s intentional, dynamic, and malleable to attain desirable outcomes.” As an avid student of politics and governance, I believe this.

This is the underlying principle of a parliamentary system of government, and even in other forms of government including a Presidential system, the opposition provides checks and balances, it is a kind of alternative government, a counterweight, providing such balance that could safeguard the integrity of the political process.