Some political movements in the All progressives Congree (APC) under the aegis of under the aegis of the APC National Vanguard, on Sunday alleged that the party’s national leader, Sen. Bola Tinubu had struck a deal with the Peoples Democratic Party and was covertly working for the electoral misfortune of President Buhari in the 2019 general elections.
The group made its position known in a communiqué issued after its emergency meeting held in Abuja. The group berated Tinubu for accusing the National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun of sabotaging his reconciliation assignment, claiming that his letter was solely aimed at effecting the removal of the Chairman before the forthcoming National Convention slated for June 2018.
The communiqué reads in part;
“Politics should be played without bitterness, envy and acrimony, recent events in our party, APC have proved the contrary. It is surprising that our great party is being thrown into further crisis by those who should protect our interest and ensure unity because a house divided against itself cannot stand.
Otherwise, why would somebody entrusted with the mission of reconciling aggrieved parties to pave way for APC national convention be throwing stones in a glass house? Our independent investigations have revealed that Tinubu is working for the opposition parties and PDP to cause crisis that would lead to the sudden death of APC.
We have it on good authority that some PDP members have scheduled a meeting with Tinubu next week in the United Kingdom. We commend the maturity of Odigie-Oyegun and his response. After President Buhari entrusted with the assignment of reconciling members of APC, we would have expected that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu would go about the task with tact and humility.
But to the contrary, the first thing he did was to create more discord within the party by going after constituted authority of the APC. The question to ask is : from where does Asiwaju derive his authority? In whose interest is he creating crisis? Does the task of reconciling aggrieved party members convey any authority on him to attempt to discredit the party chairman in public domain? We believe the evil people among us won’t go unpunished.”
