REFORMATION COMES TO APC.
– By Pascal Ononye
I cannot thank the people’s President, Sen. Bola Ahmed Tinubu enough, for uprooting the “factional” Chairman of APC, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu.
Now, let me explain “Factional” here. Adamu was installed by the Mamman Daura led cabal to Foster their personal interests of installing Sen. Ahmed Lawan, as the successor to President Muhammadu Buhari. But it all went wrong. The James Ibori-led political Bandits, whose face is Ovie Omo-Agege, but which included Hope Uzodinma, Timipre Sylva, Iyiola Omisore, etc., quickly hijacked the Sen. Lawan project.
They fought, with cash, looted from state coffers, Niger Delta River Basin Development Authority, Ministry of Petroleum, NNPC, NDDC, etc.
But their major nemesis was an elegant African Amazon who is politically savvy, unlike her politically naive husband. Aisha Buhari threw caution to the wind, going all out, based on patriotism, to recruit support for a totally different candidate, Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu. Tinubu won massively and convincingly. Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu told Lawan, the Daura and the Ibori camp’s candidate, to lick his wounds. Ouch!
They had to lick their wounds, twice as Bola Ahmed Tinubu, went on to defeat the PDP and the Labour candidates in the 2023 general elections, where they had pitched their financial and moral support. This was in spite of the humongous amount, supposedly APC chieftains like Omo-Agege, Hon Minister Umana Umana, Rotimi Amechi, Timipre Sylva, Samuel Ogbuku of NDDC, squandered on Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi.
It’s worthy of note here, to state that the Obnoxious song, “Baba wey no well….”, was commissioned by the Anti Tinubu bandits and funded by the cash distributing MD of NDDC, Samuel Ogbuku.
Howbeit, Abdullahi Adamu, continued as the factional chairman, still protecting the interests of those within their camps and refusing to have audience with perceived supporters of Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
Adamu, on behalf of the bandits, fought to regain the control of the National Assembly. President Tinubu held his nose at the stench around Sen. Akpabio, and chose loyalty over treachery.
Loyalty is a scarce commodity in Nigeria where most people would sell their mothers for pottage and their children for cash.
It was and still clear to all that the APC victory at the presidential election, drove the knife, further into the bowels of the bandits who, all came from different political parties to hijack the APC for their mother political party, the PDP.
If President Bola Ahmed Tinubu succeeds in prying APC from the clutches of PDP, it will be great for our country. This would mean that Nigerians would have parties with different ideological convictions and Nigerians would be able to make an informed choice of which party they prefer, based on their beliefs, values and their ideologies.
The Progressives should queue behind President Bola Ahmed Tinubu as he battles the hijackers of APC, to recover the party to serve all Nigerians.
Talking of service, let me say too, that Pres. Bola Tinubu must stand firmly on the roles of the three different arms of government. The primary role of the National Assembly is law-making. Since the inauguration of the 10th Assembly, all we have heard them, is the construction of roads; from the Senate President to Senator Adams Oshiomole, Senator Athan Achonu, etc. Whatever happened to law-making? Please make them to stay on their lane.
On the part of the judiciary, they have made it their duty, to ban the Police, the DSS and the EFCC from investigating big men in Nigeria. Should this development not be a major concern for the National Assembly? Everyone must “dey deir dey”, as we say in Nigeria.
While extolling the virtues of the woman who stood against the tide, to support President Bola Ahmed Tinubu in his fight against the political bandits of our nation, I urge Nigerians to throw their weight behind the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to succeed for our nation. He heads OUR government. He must succeed for us. Nigeria has the potential to become a world power. Let’s do it. Pres. Bola Tinubu Leads, we follow.
Pascal Ononye writes from the Netherlands.
