APC Might Be Worse Than PDP If Elected Into Power -Balarabe Musa.

Alhaji   Balarabe Musa was the Governor of Kaduna State in the Second Republic. He is at present the National Chairman of Peoples Redemption Party (PRP). In this interview with SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, GABRIEL JOHN, he bares his mind on burning national issues, and insists that PDP and APC  are rooted in the same parent since almost 70 percent of the membership of APC is from PDP. He argues that the APC may be worse than the PDP if elected into power. Excerpts…

There are fears that the election which was earlier postponed to March 28 and April 11 may not hold after all, that the ruling party, PDP, may come out with a six-month postponement request based on section 135 of the Constitution. What’s your view on this?

First of all, PDP is not capable of postponing the election. According to the law, it is only INEC and the president who can postpone or extend the date for the election. INEC can do it at any time according to the law. However, the president can do the same if he feels it is necessary in the interest of peace and security. He can ask the National Assembly to expedite the extension of the date of the election. So, only the INEC and the president can do so, not PDP.

Prior to the February date, APC was optimistic of winning the election, are you not afraid that the postponement may affect its success in the March 28 election?

I think APC is not taking important matters into consideration. Even though they were hopeful of winning the election if the election had held on February 14, they ought to also have realized that there was no preparation by INEC for the election. No preparation at all at that time. So, the election could not go anywhere. The important issues were the distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs). Were they sure that their members were issued voter cards more than other party members? They couldn’t be sure. Or other party members were issued Permanent Voter Cards than other party members? APC was not sure of that. Therefore, there were no parameters to measure their chances if elections had taken place on February 14. All that gave them hopes were the fact that according to evidence, from INEC sources, more permanent voter cards were issued in the Northern part of the country than in the Southern part. That didn’t automatically mean that those permanent voter cards went to APC members more than PDP members in the Northern part of the country. APC can still be hopeful, but let us hope that we are not relying on unreliable sources.

Read full interview here http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/03/apc-may-worse-pdp-balarabe/