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"They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by realteflon(m): 9:09pm On Dec 24, 2013 |
Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka, Sunday, lashed out angrily at the patron-shopping strategy of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, suggesting that it lacked moral focus, and had the feel of political prostitution. In a short email message, the professor of literature said he was triggered by media reports that an “APC- led group …has been paying courtesy visits to former Heads of States” prompting him to ask if the party had thought it through what disaster this would mean for the nation. Mr. Soyinka said the media report that stirred him to respond to the APC had these words: ”Tinubu added that the APC had resolved to rescue Nigeria, appealing to Obasanjo to lead the mission. We’re resolved and determined to rescue Nigeria. We want you as navigator”. He then asked if the APC was truly comfortable that this represented its core principles. “Would it be correct to state that their purpose is captured in the following Mission Statement?” he queried, claiming an impending political disaster, with grave humanitarian consequence. “If this attribution is correct, may I urge you, as an urgent public service, to advise families to begin the stockpiling of life-belts for the guaranteed crash. “Don’t forget to alert the coastguards – Ecowas, AU, UNO etc etc – to be on the alert for possible salvage operations.” Mr. Soyinka then hinted at the moral opportunism of the patron-shopping strategy by asking: “By the way, If General Sani Abacha were alive today, would he also have been on the ship’s complement? As Captain perhaps?” Some Nigeria’s pro-democracy activists had also in separate interviews with PREMIUM TIMES Saturday expressed outrage at the invitation handed the likes of former Presidents Ibrahim Babangida and Olusegun Obasanjo and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar to join the APC, saying the party’s progressive posturing might after all be a fluke. The activists argued that by desperately going in search of these Nigerians believed to have contributed to bringing the nation to its knees, the opposition party has shown that it is not different from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in ideology and that it is only interested in grabbing power. The APC leaders have embarked on an elaborate membership recruitment with visits to some of the country’s past leaders, including former military president, Ibrahim Babangida; former head of state, Abdulsalami Abubakar; former vice president, Atiku Abubakar. All, except Mr. Abdulsalami, are members of the PDP. They had also visited and successfully wooed five governors elected on the ticket of the PDP, namely Musa Kwankwaso (Kano), Murtala Nyako (Adamawa), Chibuike Amaechi (Rivers), Abdulfatah Ahmed (Kwara) and Aliyu Wamakko (Sokoto), all of who defected to the opposition party on November 26. Other notable members of the PDP who have joined the APC are Senators Bukola Saraki and Abdullahi Adamu, former governors of Kwara and Nasarawa State respectively. Only last Wednesday, 37 other PDP members of the House of Representatives decamped to the APC, thus making it the majority party in Nigeria’s lower legislative chamber. On Saturday, the APC leaders also visited former President Olusegun Obasanjo, who recently wrote an 18-page letter complaining among other things, the state of the PDP. The activists expressed anger and disappointment that the APC, whose registration last May they hailed, had gone on to recruit characters, who might taint it with conservative bent. A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, Femi Falana, said the APC leaders were recruiting the former leaders who have been excluded from what he termed the “come and chop” policy of the PDP. “In bourgeois politics, the ongoing development is called ‘realignment forces.’ In the process, those who have been excluded from the ‘come and chop’ policy of the PDP are now being asked to choose their place at the table in case the APC takes over power in 2015,” Mr. Falana said. Lamenting that the APC leaders did not have any plan to woo the youth who constitute more than 60 per cent of the country’s voting population, Mr. Falana said the mobilisation of the past leaders and other PDP chieftains had basically shown that the opposition leaders were only interested in power. He said, “The APC has no plan to woo the youth who constitute more than 60% of the voting population. It is the belief of the leaders of both APC and PDP that the 2015 general election is going to be fixed by the traditional manipulators of elections. This is the basis of the ongoing mobilisation of the PDP chieftains including those who cannot win elections in their own wards. “By wooing discredited military and civilian despots who have destroyed the country since 1966, the APC has shown that it is only interested in power for the sake of power. “I understand that one of the retired generals is going to become the chair of the Board of Trustees of the APC! This is a case of alienation from the people. How can APC leaders believe that Nigerians want Generals Obasanjo and Babangida to be rehabilitated after destroying the country? “The duo ruled for 20 years and ruined the country in the process. General Obasanjo has just confessed that he has been installing incompetent leadership since 1979. And he is not ashamed to make that provocative disclosure. Has he offered public apology for his maxima culpa before wooing him? “The situation is not different in a number of states and local council areas where the new PDP is busy taking over all the structures of the APC. Since the APC is positioning itself to retain the status quo it cannot become a truly progressive party.” Mr. Falana said the PDP had started fighting back ferociously and violently because the stakes were high, adding that huge funds and weapons of mass destruction were already being assembled for the general elections while money, religion, ethnicity andother primordial sentiments were being deployed to confuse the electorate. Another lawyer and activist, Bamidele Aturu said he was not surprised by the visit of the APC leaders to some of these prominent Nigerians, adding that he had always known that there was no difference between the PDP leaders and their APC counterpart. “APC is not different from the people they are visiting,” Mr Aturu said. “They belong to the same ideological camp. They (APC) are not progressives as they claimed. You are not a progressive because you gave yourself that label.” “They are going round to woo these people because of the succession crisis in the PDP. What then is the difference in ideology and vision? PDP believes in selling everything. They sold PHCN. I won’t be surprised if some of them (APC) leaders bought it.” Mr. Aturu challenged the APC leaders to tell Nigerians how that they are different from the PDP members they are wooing. Source 1 Like |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by touch4mony: 9:34pm On Dec 24, 2013 |
oya where are the APC e-rats come and justify your payment now or u lose ur job. 2 Likes |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by gramci: 10:40pm On Dec 24, 2013 |
touch4mony: oya where are the APC e-rats come and justify your payment now or u lose ur job. they will surely come aregbesola paid them 13th month 1 Like |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by seunlayi(m): 11:05pm On Dec 24, 2013 |
touch4mony: oya where are the APC e-rats come and justify your payment now or u lose ur job.they will soon get here 'cos they won't want to loose their job |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by seunlayi(m): 11:07pm On Dec 24, 2013 |
this is the beginning of the downfall of a party that is yet to rise! |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by superjaks(m): 12:38am On Dec 25, 2013 |
so u really expect me to read all that......? o serious |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Nobody: 1:36am On Dec 25, 2013 |
Damn.. these APC leaders really take Nigerians for fools. Tell me one good reason why any Nigerian will now vote APC knowing full well they're openly recruiting the likes of IBB, Atiku and OBJ into their party? It's clear they lack any sort of principles. In fact I pity this country if they dare smell that office. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Leboska(m): 6:56am On Dec 25, 2013 |
when i saw all those drama i was just laughing cos they are giving pdp every reason to sweep it again once more. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by PassingShot(m): 7:29am On Dec 25, 2013 |
Well, in the eyes of Soyinka no Nigerian is good enough to rule the country. He always find fault in everything and anything. To even know that this is someone who cannot win an election but always revels in criticizing anything is funny really. What has he been able to change in our polity since all these years. Abeg, Prof go siddon. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Nobody: 7:48am On Dec 25, 2013 |
superjaks: so u really expect me to read all that......? o seriouswetin you dey find for here? Romance section is next door they'll soon be here to criticize this gentleman. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by SLIDEwaxie(m): 8:04am On Dec 25, 2013 |
ROSSIKE: Damn.. these APC leaders really take Nigerians for fools. Tell me one good reason why any Nigerian will now vote APC knowing full well they're openly recruiting the likes of IBB, Atiku and OBJ into their party?.because votes are never counted, influence does! U, of all people knws dt! Why trying to sound like a hypocrite? U are closer and working with PDP, i suppose u dnt undermine the influence of these people. If APC succeeded in truly wooing these people, then PDP is a goner. And abt Nigerians been taken for a fool, well, in a way, u are right. Cos 14yrs of useless rule can't be the one telling us not to move on! How many years do u need? 6more? Ok. We haff ear u... We will think abt it. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by edoyad(m): 8:08am On Dec 25, 2013 |
Passing Shot: Well, in the eyes of Soyinka no Nigerian is good enough to rule the country. He always find fault in everything and anything. To even know that this is someone who cannot win an election but always revels in criticizing anything is funny really. What has he been able to change in our polity since all these years. He has done more than all, save a handful, to change the polity, mindset and chequered values of this country. Look somewhere for somewhere to criticise because this man is a hundred percent correct. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Turbocharged: 9:35am On Dec 25, 2013 |
Passing Shot: Well, in the eyes of Soyinka no Nigerian is good enough to rule the country. He always find fault in everything and anything. To even know that this is someone who cannot win an election but always revels in criticizing anything is funny really. What has he been able to change in our polity since all these years. 1 by 1 |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Turbocharged: 9:37am On Dec 25, 2013 |
superjaks: so u really expect me to read all that......? o serious 1 |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Turbocharged: 9:38am On Dec 25, 2013 |
SLIDE waxie: because votes are never counted, influence does!2 |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by talktimi(m): 9:56am On Dec 25, 2013 |
Turbocharged:dem don dey show face small small. Only fo0ls would have been deceived by this APC people |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by SLIDEwaxie(m): 11:14am On Dec 25, 2013 |
Turbocharged:make me number one dude. Pls. Thanks while u modify. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Nobody: 6:03pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
the apc party is making the pdp look like a good party,i once thought political parties is all about ideology but with the way the apc guys are going about it, it seems it is all about political interest[2015],they want to be at the center at all cost not minding whose blood is wasted[amaechi turning the revolutionist],they know that they will benefit from the present status quo if they get at the center come 2015 that was why they opposed the proposed national conference...too bad they are trying to take us back to evil days, |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by Ikengawo: 6:16pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
I was beginning to see soyinka as a hypocrite for affiliating with them but this has redeemed him |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by juman(m): 6:41pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
One nigeria is our problem and solution is to divide the country. nigeria is a country where all kinds of "leaders" are bad. |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by dave07(m): 7:06pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
He said, “The APC has no plan to woo the youth whoconstitute more than 60% of the voting population. It is the belief of the leaders of both APC and PDP that the 2015 general election is going to be fixed by the traditional manipulators of elections. This is the basis of the ongoing mobilisation of the PDP chieftains including those who cannot win elections in their own wards.And what has the youth got to say,nothing except to fight along political, religious and tribal divides on Nairaland and be used as pawns in the power game, as far as I am concerned, we are yet to have a political party in Nigeria! |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by redsun(m): 7:11pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
Apc is nothing but just another bunch of criminals that are angrily eyeing the deltan spoil. Buhari really finished what is left of his undefined principles by associating with Apc. It shows he could easily give in to thieves. Unless of course it is a strategy for him to grab power and turn on his psychopathic comrades like tinubu 1 Like |
Re: "They Are Political Pr0stitutes"- Soyinka Blasts APC Leaders by BlackBaron: 7:26pm On Dec 25, 2013 |
I once said 'na the same mama born them' [politicians] Sounds like they could trade the citizens for a few pieces of silver. At this rate, it'll be better to support independents than either of these 2 crooked political parties. |
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