TINUBU
National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has said he has no intention of leaving the APC to form another party as widely reported in some sections of the media.
The well respected politician said he labored hard with other party faithfuls before the party was registered and as such he couldn’t abandon it for any other idea.
Recall that there had been speculations of internal party crisis rocking the ruling party which came to power in 2015 after defeating the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP which had hitherto ruled Nigeria since her return to democracy rule in 1999.
The recently concluded elections in Edo and Ondo States were also a pointer to the crisis rocking the ruling party. While the Asiwaju was said to have lost majority of his anointed candidates to some others who were loyal to other camps in the party as the standard flag bearer, Tinubu himself confirmed that all was not well in the party as he openly attacked the party’s national chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, a man he was also instrumental to his emergence on methodologies used in selecting the party’s flag bearer.
Furthermore, the revered politician was conspicuously absent at major rallies and campaigns of both elections that held in Edo and Ondo State. A move many political pundits said would have its adverse effect on the party’s chances in both elections.
However, in a press statement credited to him, Tinubu said though there were challenges currently bedeviling the party, however, the challenges were not enough reasons to dump the party to join or form alliance with another.
The statement reads in part: “In our Journey to national betterment, plans and policies will be made, then amended. Mistakes will occur and then corrected, Achievements will be had and replicated.
Through it all, I, Asiwaju will remain true to the progressive ideals that fueled the creation of APC.
I have devoted my political life to achieve what has been achieved. My heart is too much of the people and my mind too fixed on establishing a positive historic legacy rather than engage in destructive pettiness.
The former governor of Lagos said further: “This government, APC, is for the betterment of the people and the national purpose is bigger and more important than any individual’s desires.
This is a party I labored with others to build. We would not abandon it for another. Millions of Nigerians who voted are watching and praying”.
