Professor Utomi<\/a> said it was all about why and how they chose candidates, which invariably lead to how both political parties have ended.<\/p>\nAccording to the don, these two major political parties in the country treated power like tools of transactions, with candidates not carrying any ideology.<\/p>\n
In his words: \u201cNow, with all of these problems staring at us, Nigerian political parties missed the script.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe script is that a political party is a source of recruitment of the best available talents into groups that have competing ideas of how to order society.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, this idea, which is called ideology says that you can use state control to achieve a lot. And yes you can. It depends on how you manage that process.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnother group says you can use markets to achieve a lot. And yes you can. It depends on how you run the markets and the institutions that support the markets.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the political parties that Nigerian politicians came with believe in nothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was just machine politics \u2013 the machine for capturing power, usually financed by a few people who are big men who take money mainly from the treasury of the state.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd so, these parties came to be tools in their nature in terms of how they dominate the politics but they did not manage them to create a developmental notion of society.<\/p>\n
\u201cSeeking power between them now became a series of transactions. \u2018Okay, I will give you Nigerian Ports Authority, you will get NIMASA, and you will get Airports Authority\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey share everything, as APC and PDP are doing now. They share government and the mindset of those who are investing to get their share is to loot.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, the developmental nature of the state is lost.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey will make some pronouncements because they need legitimacy \u2013 \u2018oh, government will do this for the people\u2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut as you are seeing clearly, Nigeria has been moving progressively backwards.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, the nature and structure of these political parties basically got us to a point where it has become implausible, not impossible, that something coming out of the PDP or the APC could lead to Nigeria making a major leap forward.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd you can see it in the nature of how they choose their candidates, which is what brought us to the no alternative scenario that we have come to.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though there are quite a number of good people that could have come out of the APC, the APC process necessarily had to end up where it ended.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though there are quite a number of good people in the PDP, the PDP process had to end up where it ended.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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