OF APC AND THE MORAL IMPERATIVE Now, I am really getting disturbed about APC. During the scheming for a mega alliance it was one controversy after another. It was either APGA had pulled out or it was never part of it. Or that a faction of DPP purportedly went into the alliance without authorization and its major proponent, the (now) late erudite Senator Ewerhido got suspended from the party. That story was debunked, rebunked, unbunked and redebunked again, if you permit the coinages. Then came the time to register the so-called mega opposition party, and it made a mess of it. Apparently over-confident that its registration was a given, the promoters failed to carry out the most rudimentary due diligence. The dust had hardly settled when the party once again went into another controversy by alienating a vital geo-political zone (the south east) from its national exco, sending tongues wagging, and leaving the field wide open for speculation. In the midst of it all, the gist was still on as to whether General Buhari would still retain the party’s presidential candidacy. That is still unclear even as I write this. The latest round of controversy however raises profoundly disturbing questions about the political and moral health of not only the (now) registered APC but the country as a whole. Last week, in an x-ray of the polity with a friend, he casually dropped the hint that General Babangida and Alhaji Atiku Abubakar were each scheming to be chairman of the Board of Trustees of the party. I was nonplussed and fervently prayed it was not true. The shocker, or confirmation, or rumour, or shoconfirumour (please pardon the coinage again)however came yesterday when I read it in black and white that indeed IBB and Atiku are scheming to be chairman of the BOT of APC. If this is true, then APC should stop parading itself as a progressive opposition party. It is simply business as usual. Pray, somebody should tell me: since when did the likes of IBB become classified as belonging to the camp of the opposition? This is preposterous! APC has clearly shot itself on the foot. Tell me, what would now make any rational voter to dumb PDP and vote APC? Absolutely nothing! Both parties are the same ten and ten pence. In fact APC configuration has now become even more curious, having a mixture of left, right and centre politicians – a coalition of strange bedfellows. There is no way progressives, reactionaries and centrists can work together. The party is on its way to perdition and extinction. It is all a charade. And now that the former CSO to General Sani Abacha, Hamzat Al Mustapha has been released, there is already rumour that he is the new face of the North and that he is already being pressured to join APC. I cannot believe this. I want to see how former NADECO chieftain, Senator Bola Tinubu, would seat at the same table with Al Mustapha. Surely, the prospect presents a curious but interesting perspective. But strange things are never strange in Nigeria, and the country is beyond shock. Or how else can one explain a situation in which another former NADECO chieftain and OPC founder Dr. Fredrick Fasheun is in the fore-front of Al Mustapha’s new-found friends? It seems MKO, his wife Kudirat, Pa Alfred Rewane and all those who were felled during the June 12 1993 struggle have all died for nothing. What a country!
Posted on: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 06:31:09 +0000
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