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Abuja, Nov. 10, 2016 (NAN) Chief Emmanuel Ogidi, National Vice Chairman, South-South, Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), said the emergence of Donald Trump as President-elect of the U.S. classically demonstrated that only God could give power.
Ogidi said that this was so because many people currently believed that Trump’s emergence against all odds and permutations, was the “latest wonder of the world’’.
He told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday that the result of the Tuesday election truly shocked most persons in the U.S. and the world because of the issues Trump canvassed during his campaign.
But, he said that Trump won the election because though a businessman, was a politician who understood Americans and “spoke their language’’ to them.
Allaying the fears of the people, Ogidi said “truth is that in the U.S., anybody in a position of authority cannot do whatever he likes.
“The U.S. has strong institutions to check people in government and their offices, and as such, Trump cannot have his way on the issues he canvassed during his campaigns.
“U.S. can sack anybody, no matter his position, who goes against the will of the people. The institutions are there to protect the system and the people.’’
Ogidi also said that the Democratic Party was voted out in the elections because of President Barak Obama’s support for gay activities and marriage, saying that God and humanity were angry with him.
He urged Nigeria and African countries to build strong institutions that would call people in positions of authority to order or hold them accountable for their actions.
“With strong institutions, there will be confidence in the people that whoever is in public office cannot misbehave, and when he does, there are processes to call him to order,’’ he said.
On his part, a former Speaker of Delta State House of Assembly, Mr Martin Okonta, said that Trump triumphed because those who were against him believed he was unpopular and relaxed.
He said that rather than working hard till the end and ensured victory for Clinton, her promoters and supporters underrated real politics and dropped their guards, in confidence that they had it.
According to Okonta, when the Democrats and their supporters relaxed, racists who love Trump, took advantage and pressed on.
He, however, said that the lesson from the result of the election, believed to have gone contrary to expectation, was that power was transient and belonged to God, “who gives to who He pleases’’.
He also said that the acceptance of defeat by Hilary Clinton, although already exemplified by former President Goodluck Jonathan, should be imbibed by politicians in Nigerian and Africa.
On ongoing protests in many states in America over the election result, Okonta said that it was intended to make Trump to sit up and face governance squarely. (NAN)
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Edited by Olisa Ifeajika