Congresses: Group wants President Buhari to wade into APC crisis
- The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been in the news for the wrong reasons in recent times
- The party has been enmeshed in serious crisis after the ward, local government and state congresses held recently
- A pro-Buhari support group wants the president to intervene in the crisis to ensure peace reigns
A pro-Buhari support group, Vote Guard and Awareness for Buhari, on Tuesday, May 29, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to intervene in the crisis rocking the APC.
Leader of the group, Alhaji Kelani Mohammed, at a press briefing in Kaduna, stressed that the crisis rocking the party in many states require the president’s personal intervention.
According to him, the APC needed a united front ahead of the 2019 general elections, even as he blamed some governors for igniting some of the crises by allegedly hijacking the party machinery in their states and scuttling internal democracy.
According to him, only Buhari’s personal intervention will bring about sanity in the APC before 2019. He also dismissed recent agitation by the new PDP, saying it was self serving group.
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His words: “There was a merger ahead of the 2015 elections, where about four or five parties came together, and every group came with its own interest.
“The complain the nPDP members are putting forward is that, they have not been carried along, though, in a political setting like ours, people are bound to be aggrieved, but in the case of members of nPDP, many of them got appointments.
“Saraki is the Senate president, Dogara is speaker, many of them are governors, while some benefited from the recent board appointments, while their spokesman, Kawu Baraje is a chairman of a lucrative board.
“Now, I learnt that, they met the vice president yesterday and still, they are not satisfied; they said they have to meet the president.
“But believe me, in a party situation, we depend solely on the masses of this country who will do the voting and that is why the government is concentrating on how to bring the masses out of their present predicament.
“For us, all we desire is peace, cohesion and mutual understanding for APC to move forward towards 2019. Truly speaking, nPDP have their own masters outside and maybe they have a second option, but even if they have they cannot defeat us, because we have the masses with us.” (NAN)
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Saraki on Monday, May 28, led a high-powered delegation of new Peoples Democratic Party (nPDP) members to meet with Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo. The meeting was held at the vice president’s official residence, Aguda House, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja behind closed doors.
The nPDP members recently complained that they have been sidelined by the Buhari administration in an open letter to the leadership of the APC, written by their leader, Alhaji Kawu Baraje. They had consequently given an ultimatum to President Buhari to meet with them to iron out their grievances.
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