More reactions have continued to trail last week’s National Assembly leadership election, with Prof. Rufai Alkali, erstwhile political adviser to former President Goodluck Jonathan, declaring yesterday that the process has vindicated their stance on the All Progressive Congress (APC).
Speaking to journalists on Sunday, Alkali, who reiterated that the APC was not prepared to govern a complex nation such as Nigeria, said the greatest obstacle to the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is not the PDP and other political parties, but some of the over ambitious leaders and members of his party.
He noted that responses from stakeholders within and outside the APC on the crisis reminded Nigerians of his earlier call on the leadership of the APC, before the handing over of government, to plan more and talk less, but was castigated by the all knowing and incorrigible APC’s spokesman, Alh. Lai Mohammed.
He said, “I have observed with keen interest the scenario in the National Assembly that resulted in the election of Sen. Bukola Saraki and Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and other leaders of NASS.
What attracted my attention more, though not surprising, were the incoherent and contradictory responses from the leaders of the APC, especially the faction led by the former governor of Lagos, Sen. Ahmed Bola Tinubu, who outrightly rejected the outcome of the election.
“This is indeed a clear confirmation of my earlier warning to the APC to plan more and talk less. Undoubtedly, things have started falling apart in the APC. From the look of things, the greatest obstacle to the Muhammadu Buhari’s administration is not the PDP and other political parties, but some of the over ambitious leaders and members of his party, the APC, who believe they have invested so much in his election and cannot wait a day longer to collect returns from their investments”.
Alkali refuted the claim that the emergence of Sen. Ike Ekweremadu of the PDP as deputy president of the Senate and accusation in some quarters of the rejection of all the anointed candidates of the APC in the elections was the handiwork of the PDP to maintain leadership of the assembly.
He said, “Whoever said that the PDP is dead and buried should please show me the cemetery and the grave where the PDP was buried. Nigerians should not forget the fact that some of the members of the PDP who joined the APC went there as a result of some circumstances but the souls and minds of most of them are still in the PDP.
“Remember, most of those who left were founding fathers and senior leaders of the PDP in their respective states and zones. This is therefore just the beginning of the beginning.”
He further congratulated the newly elected leadership of the National Assembly and other members of the National Assembly who were inaugurated on June 9 and June 10, 2015 respectively.
“May I also use this occasion to congratulate Sen. Bukola Saraki, the new president of the Senate and his deputy, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, the speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and his deputy, Hon. Yusuf Lasun and other newly inaugurated members of the two chambers of the National Assembly.” Alkali stated.
APC Crisis: We Have Been Vindicated – Alkali
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