APC: MAY SPLIT INTO TWO PARTIES Ab initio, APC is a political party of strange bedfellows. As a political party, APC was founded on the basis of vengeful and un-democratic ideals namely to grab political power and punish those who had administered Nigeria. Its merger with the illegality that is new PDP is even reasserting. From the fanaticism of Muhammadu Buhari, the never say die spirit of Atiku, to the empire building tendencies of Senator Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the party is indeed one great agenda of chaos. Although, so many of the early decamped have gone home to PDP, a few of the members left in APC have untidy EFCC records; some of them have cases pending in court and these cases bother on corruption, yet the irony is that the party is coming to curb corruption. APC is akin to a blind man helping a toddles to cross a busy road. Verily, a kingdom divided against itself cannot stand. Senator Tinubu appears to be the power broker but Muhammadu Buhari who has no democratic credentials prides himself of mobilizing the talakawa to rally round him. If you look at the dossier of those in APC, they are people who have either administered disservice to their people, rejected by their people or people unacceptable at any level because of the grubby track-records. APC is a Party that lacks a sense of integrating Nigeria, devoid, as it were of any political ideology. The characters in APC are mostly people with decapitated and gangrenous corrupt inept and profligate records obfuscated by delusive ideology of power for its own sake in a Machiavellian sense. Atiku waded in to shove aside minors like Governor Amaechi-who now reads the book of lamentation about APC’s deceit and betrayal. The Party now is torn apart into three parts. Atiku is hell bent on buying the ticket. Buhari argues that he has spent time to build the Party even though he counts on sponsorship from Iranm ISIS, and other fundamentalist groups in the Islamic world. Senator Bola Tinubu – an established political contractor is ready to trade with the Party and sell it to be highest bidder. He is a mindless opportunist whose mission statement is to worship money even if that means worshipping money in hell. The so called bigwigs in APC have less than edifying track-records of discrimination, looting; plundering and marginalization of their people. Such tendencies not only discourage the merit-driven system the PDP administration has been battling to entrench; they also crucify good governance on the altar of greed, avarice, and bring back the centrifugal forces of instability. The good thing is that most of those who initially populated APC have made a U-Turn back to their roots. As at now, APC cannot weigh their political strength on a balance scale of performance, probity and integrity. It is time for the APC to prove to Nigerians that the APC is a national party capable of building national consensus. The first litmus test if for APC is to select a Presidential candidate. APC is not indeed a political party but an amalgam of self seeking marauders that seek to scavenge the nation and to keep it lying prostrate. APC is anti-national integration; anti-unity and the Party is one of the few Boko Haram apologists. APC preaches the seizure of power but does not promise good governance. APC undermines all the positive reforms going on in the country but only emphasizes the gray areas; which has been with Nigeria decades before the President Goodluck Jonathan administration. APC does not promise social well-being to Nigerians but promises to supplant the present, enduring democratic order. The Nigerian masses are at a loss as to what the APC wants or desires to use in replacing a democratic system that has endured for about 16 years. APC’s emergence in the political space smacks of the biblical Armageddon that would upturn civility and inoculate anarchy into the system. Because the matrimony was ab initio unholy, it was not meant to last. Today, the gale of decamping has demonstrated the self-aggrandizing tendency of the leaders. The cry of marginalization has exposed the Party to ridicule. The pleasant thing is that Nigerians are getting wiser by the day. They now know how to sift real iron from dross. It is making the PDP more resolved and committed to implement its reform agenda; maintain her internal democracy, and accelerate the pace of her development projects. As predicted, APC is falling like a pack of cards but PDP is gathering momentum like never before. APC is bereft of any progressive ideology and has ultimately strengthened PDP’s position to extend its rule beyond 2019. APC peddles repugnant propaganda and Nigerians now know the direction and thrust of the so called opposition. One thing is clear: APC is navigating a rough road to nowhere. Idumange John is a Public Intellectual
Posted on: Sat, 04 Oct 2014 02:41:31 +0000
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