PLEASE READ WELL BEFORE ANY COMMENT;I NEED A VERY BRAVE REPLY! THIS IS JUST TO OPPINION DONT ABUSE ANYBODY BUT SHARE YOUR THOUGHT AND LET OTHERS KNOW WHAT THEY DID NOT... OK... I think this is a warning we have to take seriously. Exactly six years ago, the same Tinubu had this to say about Obasanjo and his experience: “What integrity has Obasanjo in terms of his legacies for Nigeria to speak on elections? Apart from his aborted third term ambition, he brought about and left a legacy of electoral corruption in the country. What is Obasanjo talking about? He should go away and retire in shame politically. He should leave the political landscape of this country alone. He brought a whole salad of corruption, manipulation and failures.” What a difference six years make! Nothing captures Obasanjo’s legacy better than the preceding paragraph. What will the former president bring to the APC? A mass following needed to defeat the PDP in 2015? While Obasanjo was lambasting President Jonathan in an 18-page open letter and explaining how he (Jonathan) was destroying the PDP, he was busy scheming – at least we learned that much from Iyabo Obasanjo’s letter – how his daughter will run for office on the platform of the APC. According to Henry John Temple in politics, there are no eternal allies or perpetual enemies, but eternal and perpetual interests. I couldn’t help but squirm when I saw the picture of Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), a three-time presidential candidate, beside Obasanjo in the APC train; the same Obasanjo he had alleged violated the sanctity of the electoral process twice and denied him the Presidency. The APC is better served spending time strengthening the party in terms of an ideology and building a mass base rather than consorting with the likes of Obasanjo and Babangida. Without this mass base, the party will implode in no time. But it appears that is asking too much of a party focused on short-term political gains. It is a lot easier to open the floodgate of defection for those who are disaffected within there Party; and the defectors are coming like flies attracted to faeces. At the current rate, the “original” APC will soon be a minority in the new formation because the bad politician runing from their party,because of there selfish interest. Ordinarily, there is nothing wrong with people defecting from one party to another. But that is if you are talking of parties with “character” so that, in the case of the APC, the “newcomers” will have to play second fiddle and fall in line with party principles and positions. I don’t want to sound sanctimonious or puritanical. A political party, we know, contains “the good, the bad and the ugly”. But when you have a party that claims to be progressive recruiting people who are not in the least interested in a genuine discussion about the interest of Nigerians and at the same time acting as if its survival depends on that recruitment then there is reason to be wary. I know a few leaders of the APC who are not particularly thrilled by the defectors and what appears to be an alliance of desperation between the APC and the “new defector”.But clearly, they simply can’t resist the only thing that seems to bind them together – the removal from power of President Jonathan. Is the APC a “progressive” party as the name implies, even in the limited sense of the word or just an association of those opposed to, not necessarily the PDP, but Jonathan? The APC and the “new defectors” may well win in 2015. And after that what next? What will be the dominant tendency in the party? I am offended to think that I’ll sit down, if that opportunity will ever come, with Obasanjo, Babangida, Kawu Baraje, Bukola Saraki, Ali Modu Sheriff, Ahmed Sani Yerima, etc., to discuss the welfare of Nigerians. If the prospect of that doesn’t scare the APC faithful, then nothing else can! Is the APC agenda about removing Jonathan or rescuing Nigeria? If it is the former, then a revolutionary third force or in the minimum a coalition of small but progressive and mass-oriented parties is the only alternative! The body language of the APC leadership is that this is our party, our business, and we can damn well do anything we want with it. If that is the case, then voters have little or no choice as we head into the election of 2015. May God’s Will be done!!
Posted on: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 07:30:28 +0000
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