PREDICTIONS that contests for leadership of the
National Assembly would unravel the All
Progressives Congress, APC, were certainly under-
stated. In a matter of weeks, APC is moving from
its confident strides to learning that toddlers do
not break into full strides – with first steps. In
what was supposed to be the most innocuous
contentions in APC, in one swoop APC lost two
critical positions to its change agenda.
Much has changed since the elections. Politicians
have weaned themselves of platforms on which
they rode to office only weeks ago. How could
APC, the party of strategists, thinkers, thought
leaders, and leaders of thought fall prey to
ambitions of its members? What does the new
coalition in the National Assembly portend for
change?
We are seeing change, maybe outside the
expansive APC applications of the word. We are
also seeing interpretations of roles in APC party
hierarchy, roles that seemed unimportant to
define. Any explanations in the middle of the early
unstable weather the party has hit could not have
lightened the unanticipated burden of success
On Tuesday, we learnt from the brilliant APC
publicist Alhaji Lai Mohammed, that APC has
many leaders. Where does that place Alhaji
Ahmed Tinubu, who many consider the owner of
APC, but merely address as national leader? There
were no contenders for the title, which is not
constitutional, until the electoral victory produced
a “national leader”, not just of APC. The President
of Nigeria is a national leader beyond the confines
of any political party.
The President declared his disinterest in the
composition of the National Assembly leadership.
It marked his understanding of separation of
powers, away from the military dictatorship he
imposed on Nigeria 31 years ago. Was this a
personal or party position? Why was the party
pushing in a different direction, if the “national
leader” had spoken? Why were sticklers to
sanctity of the legislature’s independence made
to appear as outlaws?
President Muhammadu Buhari accepts the
“constitutional occurrence” though it was outside
APC’s wish list.
APC learnt little from the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, which four years ago, wanted to
impose leadership on the House of
Representatives. The House ignored its party
leaders. If the experienced, humungous PDP
could not succeed in one house, why did APC
think it could dictate for both houses? When did
locking gates stop legislators from getting into
the National Assembly? Were we not witnesses
when they jumped fences last November, evading
teargas and other police obstacles, to access the
National Assembly?
The once All Progressives Congress, with party
discipline seemingly impermeable, has
succumbed to the greed of its patrons, who in
addition to losing the positions they coveted,
have reduced the party to just another power
centre. The forces that created the new
leadership of the National Assembly would not be
as trivial with power. They know that their
survival rests on sticking and fighting together –
for themselves.
APC leadership in its first post-election effort to
stake party supremacy has failed. After handing
over an arm of government – the powerful
legislature to a new opposition – how would APC
survive? A Senate Leader is ordinarily powerful,
now we have one who has just finished serving
eight years as Senate President. The Deputy
Senate President has begun his ninth year in
office. Both are PDP.
Tuesday flagged off the race for the 2019
presidential election. APC would soon realise that
the disgruntled fellows who left PDP for APC, were
only progressives, if it served their purpose. They
are going home, maybe with more converts, not
necessarily to PDP. They would be glad at the
ease with which they have become another
power centre, a new APC?
www.vanguardngr.com/2015/06/apc-another-power-centre/

When did
locking gates stop legislators from getting into
the National Assembly? Were we not witnesses
when they jumped fences last November, evading
teargas and other police obstacles, to access the
National Assembly?

Hahaha Our lawmakers are really thugs in disguise.

But seriously though, we miscalculated on this. It appears there was no clear communication between the clerk and the presidency to delay the inauguration.

APC would soon realise that
the disgruntled fellows who left PDP for APC, were
only progressives, if it served their purpose. They
are going home, maybe with more converts, not
necessarily to PDP. They would be glad at the
ease with which they have become another
power centre, a new APC?

Let the fvcktards go ahead and form a new APC. They would soon realize that, breaking away from PDP and still retaining political relevance, may not happen again, should they toe the same line in APC.

Arrant nonsense!