NCFront leader said the Big Tent will employ the collegial leadership approach and will announce before the end of next week.
The Chairman and Leader NCFront who is shepherding a fusion of the Labour unions, the Labour Party and NCFront as part of the Big Tent of coalition and alliance partners to rescue Nigeria, Prof. Pat Utomi, has called for a shift of mindset in Nigeria to facilitate a new order of good governance, value for money choices and commitment to the dignity of the human person, when the third force fulfills popular aspiration for the end of the current regime of dissatisfactory leadership in Nigeria.
The noted Political Economist who has committed the last 50 years to a struggle for progressive ascendancy was speaking on Friday to a wirtual conference of Concerned Professionals and members of the New Fabian Society said professionals have to take part of the blame for the state capture that has brought Nigeria to the brink of State failure.
He added that admitting guilt is part of the mea culpa we must make adding that peers that allowed accountants to participate in looting state treasury evidenced in the accusation of the Accountant General by the EFCC of N80billion fraud, and health care professionals in reducing the health sector to a man made disaster have become vicariously culpable.
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He therefore urged that all should dirty their hands to prepare for a third force government that will focus on the people and not the need and greed of politicians.
The Activist, politician and educator assured the Concerned Professionals on the call that the painstaking effort to build a strategic alliance for the 2023 elections, beginning with the fusion of NCFront with the Labour Party and build on the fusion an election alliance with other parties which include the ADC, PRP, NNPP, NMR, SDP, APM and several others was bearing fruit. Utomi who said he had opened discussions with APGA before recent Supreme Court judgments regarding that Party was much hopeful for progress.
The 2007 and 2011 Presidential candidate while paying tribute to the Rescue Nigeria Project Coordnator Dr Usman Bugaje, PRPs Halilu Bello and Prof. Attahiru Jega, as well as ADC chairman Ralph’s Okey Nwosu for their untiring work in the construction of the Third Force said the new Nigeria which beckons from 2023 will profit from lessons drawn from the errors of the last 20 years which resulted in failure to fix the electric power problem and neglect of the need to move orientation away from revenues and revenue sharing to production which has resulted in unprecedented unemployment. This he continued has been feedstock for the current bazaar of violence and insecurity in the country.
Saying it was time for Nigeria to be born again and begin afresh, Professor Utomi said professionals should propagate the values and programmes of the Big Tent partners which reflect the spirit of the founding fathers of Nigeria.
Assuring them that Nigeria will rise up again the NCFront leader said the Big Tent will employ the collegial leadership approach and will announce before the end of next week the members of the presidential college that will collectively account to the Nigerian people for governance performance even though only one person will be called President.
Professor Utomi urged Nigerians to reject the old way which has led to lost glory and favour big idea instead of big men pointing out that to continue to follow a failed approach and hope for a different, preferable outcome is a good definition of insanity.
