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… Urges Eligible Nigerians To Get Their PVCs

A chieftain of the Young Progressives Party (YPP), in Sokoto State, Alhaji Abbakar Muhammad, has advised political parties to come together and agree to a Government of National Unity come 2023 general elections.

Muhammad said this in a statement he personally signed and issued on Wednesday in Sokoto.

He said that the idea “is in the sense that the party that wins the highest votes will be the one to provide the President or Governor as the case may be”, but “the positions of Ministers or Commissioners will be based on the percentage scored by each political party.

“For example, if in the presidential election APC wins the highest votes, with 40 per cent of the total votes cast,  it will get only 40 perncent of the Ministers.

“In the event that PDP gets 35 per cent of the votes, it will also get 35 percent of the Ministers and other parties will get Ministers according to the percentages of their votes.”

Muhamad recalled that, in 2007, late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua formed a similar government of national unity, with Ministers allocated to opposition parties. 

Alhaji Abbakar Muhammad further averred that this model of governance will reduce the inter-party squabbles.

“It will also encourage political parties to serve the people more, because, if a party with 5 percent of the votes will get one Minister or a Commissioner and performs very well, this will attract more votes for the party in the subsequent election.

“We can take Sokoto as a case study in the 2019 governortorial election where PDP won with 512,002, while APC came second with 511,661. 

“With a paltry margin of 342 votes, PDP got it all, with all the Commissioners and other political appointments,  leaving APC with nothing.

“If the above should be passed into law, it will go along way in solving political differences and safeguard democracy during the 2023 General Elections.

“I aslo urge the National Assembly to promulgate this as a law and we are hopeful that Mr. President will assent it,” Muhammad added.

Muhammad also urged all eligible Nigerians to endeavour to get their Permanent Voters Cards ( PVCs) before the completion of the on going Continous Voter Registration  (CVR ) exercise on July 31st, 2022.

He said that getting the PVC is the only way to ensure that eligible Niegrians were not disenfranchised during the 2023 General Elections.