The Accord Party presidential candidate, Prof Christopher Imumolen, has revealed why he did not join both All Progressives Congress and Peoples Democratic Party,
Imumolen said he he shunned the two big political parties because of their “failures” over the year and he wanted a fresh perspective on governance.
He explained that he pitched his tent with Accord after careful review of both APC and PDP, which he claimed, failed to deliver dividends of democracy to Nigerians for over two decades.
Imumolen stated this on Wednesday in a statement issued by his campaign organisation.
The statement read in part, “I decided not to join any of these so-called big political parties because I wanted a fresh perspective on governance.
“I told myself that if I wanted to be the agent of change that I really desired to be, I needed to make a clean break by dissociating myself from the system that never seems to work despite a host of very erudite fellows who have worked in it.”
According to him, Nigeria is like a company with the same management challenge despite several attempts by different personnel to make a difference.
“It (Nigeria) is just like an organisation which keeps having the same problem again and again for say, 30 years. When you now notice that different solution proferred by those who are supposed to know is not working, the best thing to do will be to bring from outside the confines of that company someone who has not been tainted by the malaise that never seems to make things work in that organisation.
“I am that someone fresh from the outside who is untainted by the system, with no affiliations or any vested interests who will look at the country’s problems from a fresh prism and be better placed to solve them.”