A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress and ex-Senatorial aspirant, Mr. Segun Osinkolu, has vowed that the South-West caucus of the party would resist any attempt to discredit the party’s National Leader, Aiswaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu.
Osinkolu also advised the party to immediately address the leadership tussle in the National Assembly which, he said, could polarise the party.
There has been tension in the APC since the emergence of Senator Bukola Saraki as Senate President and Yakubu Dogara as the Speaker, House of Representatives, over the party’s candidate for the posts, Sen. Ahmed Lawan and Femi Gbajabiamila, respectively.
Osinkolu said it was a “gross political miscalculation and misdirected act of vengeance,” for some bigwigs in the party to see the battle as an opportunity to fight Tinubu at the expense of the party, when the former Lagos State Governor was only protecting the sanctity of the party’s supremacy.
In a statement in Ado Ekiti on Friday, Osinkolu advised the South-West caucus of the party to refrain from being used against Tinubu because of selfish interests of some people outside the zone.
“We are not against the leaderships of Senator Saraki and Hon. Dogara in the National Assembly. They are leaders of our party who deserve to hold any position of their choice as guaranteed by the constitution.
“But we frown at the way some of these leaders have been painting our leader, Senator Bola Tinubu. They craftily painted the entire power struggle to mean a struggle between the APC and Tinubu. This is bad politics and we condemn such in its entirety.
“Any Attempt to bring Tinubu down or rubbish him in APC will backfire. They should not forget that the likes of Saraki, Vice President Atiku Abubakar and the five PDP Governors that defected and helped the APC to win the Presidential poll started like a child’s play before it snowballed into an uncontrollable level. So, the APC must learn from history in order not to fall into the same pit.
“They said Tinubu was the one propping up Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila for Senate Presidency and Speakership positions. Immediately after election, Gbajabiamila congratulated Dogara and promised to work with him. Where then did Tinubu get connected in this matter?
“This issue became worrisome to some of us because the battle is gradually assuming an ethnic colouration even less than one month President Muhammadu Buhari took over as president. People are beginning to insinuate that some people are pursuing ethnic agenda in our party.”
Osinkolu expressed confidence in the ability of National Working Committee under the leadership of Chief John Odigie-Oyegun to bring the situation under control, to foster cohesion and unity of purpose.
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