PARTISAN : Peoples comment on APC -It is glaring that the party is marriage of inconveniency, peopel of different ideologies coming together. The onset showed the party is of greed people than those with any mission to accomplish. The abusing and destructive criticism does not show anything to note the nation forward but manner of getting sympathy from the masses. It is clear now that this marriage is a deceit.The defunct Action Congress of Nigeria was domained primarily in the heavily-populated Lagos State of Nigeria. With this state as the trampoline, the party extended its control to five other states through both lingered litigation and ballot-box bruising battles. Six states including Edo were in its baggie when the party beckoned for reinforcement from the North, South-South and the South-East to satisfy its hunger and urge for a taste of the juicy centre in Abuja. The respondents were all aggrieved governors in the ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party, who helped bring about what we now know as the All Progressives Congress. After its christening, it took off from the starting block like a sprinter whose eyes were set on the prize. A flurry of florid and frenzied fans and fanatics adorned the party’s sprint route cheering in a bacchanalian manner, while many others considered the APC as a coalition of the dissonant and the antipathetic, a brigade of the incompatible, and a phalanx of the discordant and the contradictory. I saw from afar off a bunch of hobnobbing square pegs shovelled into a round-hole political adventurism. Those who couldn’t read the writing on the Ouija-board of Nigerian politics thought the Peoples Democratic Party had only a few months to live after the massive membership haemorrhage. We thought the PDP would be eviscerated in a political mudslide by the new gathering of jiggering juggernauts. But here we are, seven months before the most historical election in a very ailing Nigeria, the once energised APC is losing energy and steam, losing heartfelt lovers and sympathisers to apathy, and sliding state-by-state into a respiratory coma. Except something more than the miracle of sleeping-and waking-up happens, the party may soon become another assemblage of individuals who came, saw, but cannot conquer. The Ekiti election result is a symptom of a crippling illness in the spine and bloodstream of the party. The PDP’s Ayo Fayose ran over the entire APC structure like the Tsunami in a humiliating defeat of an incumbent Governor Kayode Fayemi who hurriedly conceded. It was a drubbing, thumping, pounding, and a shellacking of an embarrassing proportion where almost 70 per cent of Ekiti voters dismissed a sitting governor at the polls. We don’t know where the PDP Tsunami is heading, but there is a zest to sweep the South-West by the ruling party that now boasts that it’s just beginning its mesmerising mauling moves across the region. Below is where we are in the South-West APC states today: what is your View?
Posted on: Sat, 05 Jul 2014 05:14:11 +0000
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