Protesting youth apparently loyal to the national chairman
of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, in their huge
numbers Tuesday stormed the national secretariat of the party in Abuja, against
what they said was an attempt by a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola
Ahmed Tinubu, to enthrone himself as the “god” of APC.
The youth group asked the former governor to limit his political
empire to the South-west region “because Nigeria is bigger than a region or
Lagos state.”. They however, called on Tinubu “to either leave the party or
curtail his greed.”
Addressing the issue, the national coordinator of APC Youth
Democratic Frontiers (APCYDF), Salaudeen Lukman, said Tinubu, “undermined the
position of Mr. President by incessantly sponsoring the spurious ridicule of
his anti-corruption fight. Each time fake stories of impropriety is written
about these appointees, paid critics and activists on hire are always quick to
accuse President Buhari of fighting corruption while surrounding himself with
corrupt people but we all know this is far from the truth.
Said he: “What we learnt is that Tinubu is attacking these
aides of Mr. President because he believes he should have been the one who
makes appointments into those positions as opposed to what happened when Mr.
President acted in national interest and cohesion to appoint tested and trusted
individuals”.
The group while expressing support for Chief Oyegun-led APC,
said “we can no longer fold our arms while we watch and allow party feudal
lords expropriate our party’s ethics simply on regional nomenclature aimed at
usurping party’s national interest.
“It should be stated categorically that we are no longer
comfortable with the whims and caprices of an orchestrated Jagaban resident in
Bourdilion, Lagos and directed at misdirecting our progressives party simply to
achieve egocentric empirical relevance. Let us state on a sad note that this
overbearing tendency on the part of Tinubu is not limited to the federal level
alone, he meddles in the affairs of even states that are not his home
states.”
Source: Vanguard
Source: Vanguard
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