Will APC Please Stop that Embarrassing Exercise?

2^nd November, 2013.

Tinubu, Buhari and Ogbonnaya Onu

By: Amir Abdulazeez

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 have observed with dismay how the highest ranking leaders of the All Progressives Congress have been going round the states of the aggrieved G-7 PDP Governors in an attempt to woo or formally invite them to their party. It is disturbing to note that, they can’t even send the governors’ counterparts in the APC to do the job but they chose to ridicule the party by offering themselves as the noblest people in the party to do the job. Can anynone imagine President Jonathan, Bamanga Tukur etal going round the country inviting Tanko Al-Makura, Babatunde Fashola and other APC Governors to join the PDP?

Firstly, this exercise embarked upon by the well-respected APC leaders in General Buhari, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu etal is embarrassing to the party signifying that it either lacks sufficient quality within its ranks or it’s not grateful with the quality of people it has.

Secondly, the exercise is an insult to the Nigerian public whom the APC have times without number told that they have been misgoverned by the same PDP and its governors. Most of the PDP Governors the APC is inviting are alleged election riggers whose help questionably brought Jonathan and past PDP Presidents into Aso Rock and Buhari knows this too well. What then is there to cherish about such governors or is it that the APC want enough ‘riggers’ in its fold to enable them attain federal power by hook or by crook? Is it now safe to believe the pundits who have stressed that APC has no any other objective besides wrestling power from the PDP?

If we x-ray the current composition of the APC, we can find out that about one-third or more of its prominent members have at one time being PDP members. It is obvious that some PDP members only join the APC to cleanse themselves of their crimes overnight. Just imagine that a person like Femi Fani-Kayode has the authority haven hidden under the opposition to accuse the ruling party which he served as a minister of misgoverning Nigeria.

It is obvious that in Nigeria that everything, no matter how good associated with PDP is an evil and everything no matter how evil is associated with the opposition is classified as good. It is highly unfortunate that we have allowed this poison to damage our thinking so much so that we have been made to believe that whatever rebellion against the PDP for whatever reason, whether selfish or otherwise is seen as heroic. Likewise, whatever romance with PDP, even for good is seen as unpatriotic.

Recently the PDP accused the APC of hypocrisy by trying to steal its members. I often disagree with the PDP in almost everything but i agree with the party on this matter to some extent.

Let’s assume that the APC have succeeded in wooing the PDP Governors, how will they reconcile some delicate issues like the Shekarau and Kwankwaso saga in Kano or the Bafarawa and Wammako saga in Sokoto for instance? Are they not therefore doing more harm than good or are they willing to sacrifice some key members to accommodate the governors who have power and wealth? Let APC be told, loud and clear that by the time the G-7 governors joined the party, it will become an annexed PDP and Nigerians are not fools, they will decide appropriately.  

Day-in day-out, the Nigerian elites are giving us more than enough reasons to believe the notion that Nigeria will never be great. People have a lot of hope for the new APC but they have started dashing peoples’ hope. Let them please call-off this embarrassing exercise immediately and tender their full apology to Nigerians.

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