Nigerians express discomfort over APC crisis
Saraki
LEADESHIP of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) should better understand that Nigerians are no longer interested in their internal crisis, most especially the ongoing crisis in the National Assembly that produced Dr. Bukola Saraki as the President of the Senate and Yakubu Dogara as Speaker, against the preference of the party.
While the leadership of the party appears to be finding means of resolving the imbroglio, Nigerians are indeed irked that a party they “collectively voted into power, setting aside ethnic and religious sentiments is now enmeshed in crisis instead of working towards actualising the promised change.”
The first 30 days of Buhari in office topped discussion inside commercial busses and other places in the last few days and people have been expressing all manners of fears that the administration “may end up being another dashed hope.” One of the irked citizens said the way APC started would lead to the party’s fall.
According to him, “It won’t take a good political analyst any magic to know that this is the beginning of the end of the party. This is a motion that will end the party.
If they succeeds in resolving this one another crisis will definitely come up because it is a struggle towards 2019. The four parties that formed the APC will end up going their separate ways in the nearest future.”
He explained that if Buhari said he is building his operations to fight against corruption, he would definitely meet a stumbling block among politicians because there are many corrupt people who will do everything possible to stop the fight from getting to them or their cronies.
He however posited that if Buhari is smart, he can take advantage of the situation “call the bluff of anybody, jettison second term ambition and go ahead to take any drastic action he intends without minding whose ox is being gored within and without the party. This is the only way he can outsmart all these politicians around.”
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The so-called APC crisis, which was not brought on by the action of the Party, cannot be solved by the Party but by the Judiciary which comprises the Police. Solution: flush out and prosecute all the “Forgery Senators.”
Whither are compromises? Our pols still do not know that ‘give and take’ is the name of game in the political business. They want to have it all not knowing, that’s impossible. Please they should spare the Nation the anguish of protracted hope. We must stop wallowing in these neat-pickings and acrimonies. Get down to the crux of governing this Country.
The well-read Economist of London, after taking a critical assessment of Nigeria, it politics, its leaders since independence and its social cohesion purred that Nigeria is an ‘’Unfortunate Nation’’ Many were quick to dismiss this editorial as another intervention by the west in our political and social development. As if Nigerians wanted to show the world that we are not as unfortunate as they think, went to the polls in April and with our voting cards effected a peaceful democratic change. That change was personified by the person of Buhari whom we think is capable of turning things around. We did not recon that the APC that produced Buhari is populated by a bunch of also – ran political charlatans who are behaving like petulant school kids fighting over the crumbs of dinner table. They have totally forgotten that the election have been fought and won and that in fact they have won! They have forgotten that Nigerians now expect them to lift our spirit and start governing and running the country. Tear gas canisters have started raining down on both the lower and upper chambers of NASS. WE CAN AS WELL START NOW TO COUNT OUR LOSSES. I wish the President can magically transform into a military dictator and call the bluff of this overpaid, over-rated and corruption ridden lawmakers who care less about the Nigerian nation. The signs are ominous. This is not the change we have awaited for and voted for en-masse. If this crisis in APC continues, Nigerians will rise and with one voice exclaim: Bring back uncle JEG and his infamous PDP as all is now forgiven!
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