Former Minister of Education Dr Oby Ezekwesili has said that the era in which Nigerians choose between the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party is now over.
She made this position known during an interview with Channels Television’s Hard Copy, while explaining the aims and objectives of her latest movement, Red Card.
According to her, what the movement hopes to achieve is to break the hold of the two dominant parties and “get citizens to take their rightful place in our democracy”.
Ezekwesili said it had become obvious that the two dominant parties are incapable to taking Nigeria to its ‘promise land’ and that Nigerians stood a better chance by casting its net outside the two parties.
She said; “APC and PDP are the dominant players in our political space. We don’t have a political party crisis, we have a political class crisis and so I said as a citizen I’m putting out my red card and when I put it out, other citizens said they had red cards to put out too”.
