Protest to Power Collective releases manifesto for political party

BUILD THE PARTY TO TAKE BACK NIGERIA: CONVERT YOUR ANGER INTO LIBERATING POLITICAL ACTION

[STATEMENT ISSUED BY THE PROTEST TO POWER COLLECTIVE ON THE RELEASE OF THE MANIFESTO OF THE PROPOSED PARTY – DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR SOCIALIST RECONSTRUCTION – DPSR – JAN 20^, 2013]

The Protest To Power Collective [P2PC], is a loose and growing collective of activists active across Nigeria and in the Diaspora, who have reached the conclusion that the most significant lesson taught by the January Uprising of 2012 is the necessity for Nigerians who are gravely concerned about the devastating conditions of the country, to make the leap from protest to power.

 We have reached the collective understanding that the time has come for us to move from merely venting our anger in various forms of protests, to converting that anger and energy into the liberating task of building an alternative and radical mass based political platform, with which to dislodge the light fingered treasury looting Nigeria Ruling class from power, and begin the onerous task of building a new, united, strong, and prosperous nation; One where meeting the basic needs of the citizens, and guaranteeing the welfare and wellbeing of citizens and the national economy, as well as their security, would be the enforceable principle of governance.

If the year 2012 essentially defined by the January Uprising, was the year that millions of Nigerians took a definite stance and insisted that Enough is Enough; this new year, 2013, is the year when as citizens aggrieved by the unprecedented scale and scope corruption through pilfering of our collective wealth, and leading to historic and unsustainable levels of mass poverty [70%]; mass joblessness, homelessness, and grave insecurity; this is the year when we must put our collective anger into collective political use by working together to build, a Mass United Alternative Political Party platform to contest and wrest political power from these inept thieving, and ruinous ruling class. This is the task, the duty, the obligation set for us in 2013 by the January Uprising of 2012.

In furtherance of this historic task and duty, we are publicly releasing the proposed manifesto for such a party platform; a platform that we are tentatively calling the ‘Democratic Party For Socialist Reconstruction [DPSR]. We urge each and everyone concerned enough about the catastrophic trajectory of our country to take up and engage actively with this manifesto, and set up party units around the manifesto everywhere they are. It is sufficient to simply have a coordinator and Secretary for such units wherever they are set up. It is equally important that such party [DPSR] units once set up get connected and linked with the Interim Secretariat, and remain in regular contact with it.

We are very much aware that apart from the jostling within the ruling PDP, and the merger process among the main opposition parties (ACN, CPC, ANPP); We are aware that quite a number of incipient initiatives are also emerging towards building new types of alternative parties [that is alternative to the existing numerous ruling class parties]. We commend and identify with every such genuine initiative that is oriented on the social emancipation of Nigerians, radical social transformation of the national economy and polity; as well as the genuine National Liberation of Nigeria.

We are convinced that the only way this bungling, historically inept and congenitally corrupt ruling class, can be dislodged from power as the first step in the task of National Liberation and social emancipation; is for all of these genuine alternative party initiatives to come together and work out a joint political action platform in some form of a UNITED MOVEMENT TYPE PARTY, which alone can stand the chance of annihilating and dislodging the treasury looting class from power.

Towards this end, we call on all of these efforts to formally reach out to one another, and begin the necessary multi-lateral consultations, that should necessarily lead to the emergence, at some point by the end of 2013, of such a united mass party.

We on our part are open to the convening of such inter – party forum for the emergent radical alternative parties by the beginning of the 2^nd quarter of 2013.

INTERIM SECRETARIAT:

[takebacknaija@gmail.com; Takebacknigeria@blogspot.com; 

twitter: @Protest To Power; 

FB: TAKE BACK NIGERIA PAGE & GROUP]

Yinka Suleiman: 08038083740

Kenneth Okoineme: 08035939033

Odoh Diego Okenyedo: 08035909778

Wole Elegbede: 08033311478

Gbenro Olajuyigbe: 08027573703

Tunde Aremu: 08023180493

Jaye Gaskia: 08033105107