Prince Tonye Princewill, the Director of Strategic Communications of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Campaign in Rivers State in the 2019 general elections says Nigeria’s biggest challenge is neither corruption nor insecurity, but internal party democracy.
POLITICS NIGERIA reports that according to Princewill, if political parties can address that ‘threat’, proper representation is assured.
Princewill was speaking in an interview published on Vanguard on Monday.
“Nigeria’s biggest challenge in my honest opinion is not corruption or insecurity. Neither is it unemployment, although it is second on my list. Our biggest problem is internal party democracy. How we, as party members, chose our leaders. If we can get that right, the leaders we have will be true representatives of the wishes of the people and then the scourges of youth unemployment, corruption and insecurity that the masses are facing will give way to the development that has been so elusive to our beloved nation,” Princewill said.
“Trace the problems in the party and you will find that they are linked to the lack of internal party democracy.”
Princewill is an associate of the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi. He was the governorship candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in 2007 in Rivers state and in 2015 he also became the governorship candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the state, before deciding to team up with the APC in 2017 in a bid to oust the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
