APC Finally Broken As Tinubu Loyalists Set To Dump Party, Form Action Group
Following the perceived indignity meted out to the founding national leader of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, Ashiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu by power
brokers in the party from the core north, himself, his loyalists are set to
dump the ruling party.
Already, his loyalist and the Interim National Chairman of the APC, Chief Bisi
Akande have inaugurated a pressure group within the party call the Action
Group to defend and protect the interest of members of the party from the
South West zone.
The Action Group, AG was the political party led by late sage, Chief Obafemi
Awolowo in the pre and post independence era. AG was an offshoot of Egbe Omo
Oduduwa, a cultural group formed by Awolowo during the struggle for Nigeria’s
independence.
Nigerian Pilot Sunday gathered from APC South West members that they felt
betrayed by the humiliation of Bola Tinubu by members of the party from the
core North despite the critical role he played in the emergence of Muhammadu
Buhari as the presidential candidate of the APC and the eventual victory of
the party in the presidential election.
The Tinubu loyalists were said to have critically appraised the recent
development in the APC and came to the conclusion that the core North
intentionally used Tinubu as ladder to get the presidency which they have been
craving for since the death of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2010.
It was gathered that as the APC power brokers from the North gradually unfold
their hidden agenda against Tinubu, members of the party from the South West
loyal to him, held several meetings where they resolved to float an
alternative platform in anticipation of their imminent defection from the
party.
The new pro-Tinubu group, APC-Action Group, made its public media debut on
July 5 when they issued a press statement signed by its Spokesman, Segun Dipe,
where they defended the position of Bisi Akande over the crisis in the
National Assembly. Chief Akande had been criticised for his recent utterances
with which he cautioned some party members, whom he accused of trading the
party’s birthright and dining with the enemy with a bid to get choice
positions. Specifically, he mentioned some northern elites and the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP members within the APC as those rocking the party’s boat
with indiscipline and disloyalty.
APC-AG recalled how Chief Akande had journeyed with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu
through thick and thin from the dark and lonely days of the Alliance for
Democracy, AD, to the Action Congress, AC, and then Action Congress of
Nigeria, ACN, before arriving at the APC, only for them to be thrown into the
dustbin after they helped the party to upstage PDP.
Nigerian Pilot Sunday also gathered that members of APC Action Group are not
particularly happy with President Muhammadu Buhari, whom they alleged set the
stage for the humiliation of Tinubu during his inauguration when he said he
belonged to everybody and belonged to nobody. They said those against Tinubu
and the South West within the APC took the phrase as signal and presidential
endorsement to opponents of Tinubu to unleash their northern agenda in the
ruling party.
Members of the APC-Action Group are also said to be suspicious of the role
played by the President in the election of Senate President and Speaker of the
House of Representatives, when he stood aloof and watched the agreed
candidates of the party, Sen. Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, upstaged
by Senator Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara with the active support of APC
leaders from the North led by former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar.
Our source disclosed that Tinubu’s loyalists in the APC- Action Group are
bidding their time to see if President Buhari “will correct the injustice
meted out to Tinubu” when the election of the chairman of the Board of
Trustees, BoT, is held on July 20. If Tinubu is compensated with the BoT
chairman and at least four ministerial slot they, APC Action Group, will keep
their plan to defect in abeyance and watch events unfold in the party,
especially as some members of the party are already positioning themselves for
2019 primaries, he further said.
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