Labour Party has said that 2014 represented a year of insensitive opportunism and political prostitution but this year, Nigerians should be watchful and resolved to be masters of their own destinies.
The Party in its New Year Message issued in Abuja by its National Secretary, Mr. Kayode Ajulo said “2014 will go down in history as a year with the record of worst degeneration of human condition in Nigeria since the end of the civil war in 1970.
“The spate of insurgency, marked by killing of innocent citizens, kidnapping of men, women and school girls, seizure of Nigerian territory and sacking of communities, large and small, represent the most classic exemplary of this madness on national scale.
“This degeneration was even made more manifest by the way the political class, both in government and outside, has turned the plight of the masses into a tool for petty politicking and bargaining chips instead of facing the issue squarely.
“Unlike the political class in other countries that usually rally round to confront terrorism as a common evil, the Nigerian political class busy themselves with making a comic out of the plight of the ordinary people while profiteering from same.
“It is equally significant that while the year was ushered in at the first and second quarter by such promising events as the National Conference and the World Economic Forum (WEF), the outcome have been lots of disappointment. On the one hand is the repeated attempt to frustrate the full implementation of the resolutions of the confab, and on the other, the downturn in economic performance in spite of the so-called rebasing of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
“Politically, 2014 represented a year of crass opportunism, political prostitution and pedestrian populism. It was a year that saw individual Nigerians who ordinarily we should look up to as statesmen, running lies at the ballpoint of their pen in the name of ‘Their (My)Watch.’ It was such a year that the people should stand up, look back at and collectively spit at and say: never again!
“The people need to say no to violence. The people must say no to arson. The people must say no to untimely death occasioned by neglect at all levels and petty politicking. The people must say no to poor standard of living. And over and above all, the people must be masters of their destiny.”
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