An All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain in Ekiti
State, Mr. Segun Osinkolu, has said that the South-
West caucus of the party will resist attempts to
rubbish the party’s National Leader, Aiswaju Bola
Tinubu.
This is just as he advised the national leadership of
the governing party to address the crisis over the
outcome of the National Assembly elections, which
he said could polarise the party.
All has not been well with the APC since Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon. Yakubu Dogara defied the party’s directive not to vie for the National Assembly leadership positions.
The duo went ahead to contest, entering into an
alliance with the opposition Peoples Democratic
Party to emerge Senate President and Speaker,
House of Representatives 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 he issued in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State
capital on Friday, Osinkolu urged the South-West
caucus of the APC to resist being used against
Tinubu.
He said, “We are not against the leaderships of
Saraki and 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, in bad light. They craftily painted the 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 rubbish Tinubu will backfire. The
people should not forget that the likes of Saraki,
Vice-President Atiku Abubakar and the five Peoples
Democratic Party governors that defected and
helped the APC to win the presidential poll started
like a child’s play”.