The Presidency on Sunday blasted APC
leaders saying that they were not only unprogressive but also describing them
as “politically expired” politicians. However, the APC reacted swiftly, saying
Nigerians knew very well that most of the PDP leaders were
septuagenarians and octogenarians.
APC national leaders – Chief Bisi
Akande is 74 years, Maj.-Gen. Muhamadu Buhari,70; Asiwaju Bola
Tinubu, 61 and Chief Ogbonnaya Onu, 61. The PDP National Chairman,
Bamanga Tukur, is 76; Board of Trustees Chairman, Chief Tony Anenih, is
80 and Chairman, Disciplinary Committee, Umaru Dikko, is 77.
But the Presidency, through the
Special Assistant to the President on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe, said
with the “politically expired” leaders in the APC, there was no way it
would be a threat to the PDP.
It added in a statement in
Abuja, that it would be foolhardy for anyone to think that the APC
would be an alternative to the PDP.
“This fact is further reinforced by
the fact that even its (APC) leadership parades politically expired, analogue and yesterday
men, including the likes of Akande, Ikimi, Bello
Masari, Buhari, Ogbeh, Bashir Tofa and their likes, who do not promise
any hope for today’s Nigeria and therefore cannot bring any meaningful change
to the polity,” the Presidency added.
Insisting that the membership of the
APC was not progressive, it claimed that the ideology of the party
was not also impressive.
It said the only common thing
that bound them was the desire to seize power from the PDP.
The Presidency claimed that President
Goodluck Jonathan was being persecuted because he was from a minority
tribe.
“The membership and composition of
the APC is nothing progressive. They are ideologically ill defined and seem to
have come together for only one purpose which is to grab power from the PDP and
united on one sentiment which is their peculiar hatred for the person of President
Jonathan. Is there an offence in being a President from a minority tribe?,” it
stated.
The Presidency said that those
who joined the APC did so because of their hatred for the President, which
it said started since he won the election in 2011.
The Presidency said, “Those who
cooperate with them from the North are not true mainstream northern politicians
but rather anarchists and irredentists who pursue political power based purely
on ethnic sentiments.
“From the first day of the Jonathan
Presidency, these people have tried all methods to suffocate his administration
and make it impossible for him to govern. Immediately the President was
inaugurated, he was made to contend with a major post-election violence
unprecedented in the annals of our political history.
“This paved the way for the
escalation of the Boko Haram insurgency to the level that was totally and
absolutely unimaginable; reducing previous episodes like the Maitatsine riots
and similar previous sectarian violence in the North to a child’s play.
“It is to the glory of God, tenacity
of purpose and ingenious administrative capacity of President Jonathan that in
spite of these overwhelming and daunting security crisis, his
administration still records a most distinguished performance in terms of
delivering dividends of democracy ever recorded in the annals of
the history of Nigeria.
“Isn’t it surprising too that since
their coming together, Nigerians have yet to know what the APC stands for in
terms of definite agenda? What do they have that is better than the PDP?
“They have no official manifestoes;
rather what we hear from one leader is a sharp contradiction from what we hear
from another.”
For example, it said Buhari,who is
the leading figure of the APC in the North, delivered a lecture in
London in which he alleged that he spoke against restructuring of the
Nigerian federation, resource control, sovereign national conference and
other core demands of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria.
The Presidency added that
Tinubu went to a similar event more recently and listed out APC’s proposed
programmes on power, agriculture, and rail transportation which were not in any
way different from the contents of the Transformation Agenda of the PDP.
It said in spite of the long years of
existence of the three political parties(ACN, Congress for Progressive
Change and All Nigeria Peoples Party) that merged into the APC,they were unable
to find credible personalities among their followers for national positions and
offices.
“The ACN particularly is reputed to
always outsource its presidential candidate to the PDP. It is not surprising
therefore that in the new party’s national executive, six of its 11 members,
which is about 60 per cent are former chieftains of the PDP,” it added.
Because of this, the Presidency
said Nigerians would want to know whether the APC was different from the PDP or
that it should be regarded “as PDP 2.”
Faulting the description of the APC
as consisting of old and expired leaders, the Interim spokesman for the APC,
Alhaji Lai Mohammed, wondered if those leading the PDP could be
categorised as young men when all of them were in their 70s
and 80s.
He added that Nigerians would
determine the fate of APC and the PDP in 2015.
The APC interim spokesman added,
“What Okupe is saying is that the National Chairman of the PDP is a young
man.
“He is saying that the chairman of
its Board of Trustees is also a young man. This is a party whose
national youth leader is about 70 years. Nigerians are not fools. At the
appropriate time, they would decide what they want.”
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Gulak, abati and okupe ar completely retrogressive in their being as well as their master hu hire dem to always show dia mediocrity, PDP ar ald guns dat need to be re-oil or thrown away and lack of ideas always borrow information an statement 4 rm each oda, information minister said analog an u too ar repeating it an hu is analog? u people dat rule 4 14yrs is dia any tin to show ,analog in thinking. GREAT NIGERIANS JUST CLICK TO APC DIGITAL PARTY.
ReplyDeleteIt is beta 4 u to come 2 Abuja an beg 4 job ok,poverty will kill u(u ar dogmatic).
DeleteU dnt J̶̲̥̅̊u̶̲̥̅̊ƨ̣̣̣̇̇̇̇τ̣̣̥ knw wat u r saying, let's watch dis APC wit der colouriot flag come rule nd see der outcome..! Its so clear dat all dis tinz r happinn cos GEJ is 4rm a minority tribe.. Wat if it was 1 of d northerns, will all dis boko haram or not bin able 2 rule Nigeria b issues? D 1st tym a guy 4rm d south south is coming 2 rule nd all dis probs bcos D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ feel only dem knw how 2 rule d country.! Gosh.! Y r sum persons wicked? Is he going 2 rule 4eva? He's going 2 go afta his years of leadership nd sum1 else will take ova.. So y all dis?.. D northern leaders r purposely frustrating GEJ's leadership cos D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ are self centered.! May God help our country Niaja cos knw d APC won't do beta if D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ come 2 seat.. Is d seat of presidency not rotational? Is it not meant 4 d Niger deltas 2? Or r D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ not part of d country?.. I A̶̲̥̅♏ 4rm d north buh i will neva support evil nd conspiracy.. D̶̲̥̅̊ε̲̣̣̣̥γ̲̣̣̥ shld do der worst!!!
DeleteI thought Age is wisdom ?, why score cheap political point
ReplyDeleteACN oh, APC oh, PDP oh are all expired political prostitutes. Retired age for the private sector is 55yrs but I don't know for the public sector, even @ that I don't think the retired age for public office will be more than 60yrs. Someone should please educate me on that. Right from my tenager age, I've known these names of leaders and today, am over 40yrs still seeing same leaders fighting to rule over us. Ha! I don taya!
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