Former Interim National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande
has explained how some persons he tagged as
subsidy thieves, corrupt businessmen enthroned
Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and Speaker
of the House of Representatives respectively.

Akande in a statement on Sunday said those jittery
of President Muhammadu Buhari’s constant threat
of anti-corruption battle encouraged and financed
the rebellions against the APC democratic
positions, which led to the adoption of Saraki and
Dogara by the PDP.

He said the party must reposition for it to offer
Nigerians the change it promised.

According to the statement, “Sometimes in 2013,
the Action Congress OF Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC) resolved to merge and set up a
merger committee to work out the modality for
glueing together as one political party under one
name, one constitution and one manifesto.

“A splinter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA) sought to be included in the merger. An
application made to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to this end by All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Interim
Committee, composed of ACN, ANPP, CPC, and
factions of APGA and Democratic People’s Party
(DPP) was approved in July, 2013.

“Between Bola Ahmed Tinubu (an ACN leader) and
Kashim Imam (a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
leader), the idea came up and was adopted that the
new party should embark on a membership
recruitment drive to certain PDP governors, whose
main agenda was to see President Goodluck
Jonathan out of power.

“The recruitment efforts took APC leaders to
Rivers, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and
Adamawa states. Eventually, five PDP governors of
Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Kwara and Rivers, together
with the majority of their PDP National and State
Assemblies members and other PDP National
Assembly members from Gombe, Bauchi and
Nasarawa, under the banner of the new-PDP, joined
the APC.

“The APC thereafter organised membership
registrations in all the over 120,000 polling units
and followed up by using these registered members
to conduct congresses in all the almost 8000
wards, in over 770 local governments, in all the 36
states (including Abuja, the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) and a convention at the National
level, thereby creating one united APC party
structure all over Nigeria.

“With this air of oneness, APC went ahead to
conduct primaries to select candidates for state
governors and Houses of Assembly and for the
presidency and the National Assemblies.

“After the elections, which saw the APC to victory
all round, a meeting was reported to have been held
by certain old and new-PDP leaders in Alhaji Kawu
Baraje’s house at Abuja to review what should be
their share in this new Buhari’s government and
resolved to seek collaboration with the PDP with a
view to hi-jacking the National Assembly and,
having got rid of Goodluck Jonathan, with an
ultimate aim of resuscitating the PDP as their
future political platform.

“Unknown to most APC members, while Senator
Bukola Saraki was being adopted as the candidate
for Senate President by certain old and new-PDP
tendencies, the theory was being propagated that,
like in most presidential democracies, the APC
minority leaders in the old National Assembly (i.e.
George Akume for the Senate and Femi
Gbajabiamila for the House of Representatives)
should automatically become Senate President and
Speaker respectively, now that APC has the
majority.

“Certain leaders felt that most past Senate
presidents had come from Benue State, which
Akume represented and that Benue State should be
made to assume the traditional home of all senate
presidents.

“At the same time, certain senators were
clamouring for one of the most ranking senators
anywhere outside the Northwest zone that
produced the President. That was how Ahmed
Lawan, who has been in the House of
Representatives for eight years and in the senate
for another eight years emerged as the candidate
for the senate president.

“Democrats among the APC leadership insisted on
selection by mock elections, rather than tribal or
sectional considerations. As a result of primary
elections, Ahmed Lawan and George Akume
emerged as APC candidate for Senate President
and Deputy respectively while Femi Gbajabiamila
and Mohammed Monguno emerged as the Speaker
and Deputy for the House of Representatives.

[b]“Numerous among those calling themselves
businessmen in Nigeria are like leaches, sucking
from the nation’s blood largely through various
governments and particularly through the Nigerian
Federal Government. While all these schisms were
going on in the APC, those who were jittery of
Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption’s battle
began to encourage and finance rebellions against
the APC democratic positions which led to the
emergence of Senator Saraki as the candidate of
the PDP tendencies inside and outside APC.

“Before the party knew it, the process had been
hijacked by polluted interests who saw the
inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC
governments’ efforts in its desire to fight
corruption.

“Most Northern elite, the Nigerian oil subsidy
barons and other business cartels, who never liked
Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance, are quickly
backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong
support. While other position seekers are waiting in
the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a
large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as
a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.[/b]

“What began as political patronages to be shared
into APC membership-spreads among ethnic zones,
religious faiths and political rankings and
experiences have now become so complicated that
the sharing has to be done by and among PDP
leadership together with cohorts of former new-
PDP affiliations in the APC, by and among gangs of
past anti-Buhari’s Presidency, and certain APC
legislators and party members who dance round the
crisis arena to pick some crumbs.

“Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it
is doubtful if the present institutions of party
leadership can muster the required capacity to
arrest the drift. It is my opinion that President
Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC
as a recking platform that may not be strong
enough again to carry them to political victory in
2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage
control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to
bring about the promised change before the party’s
shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of
governance in their hands”.
.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/06/29/nass-crisis-akande-reveals-how-subsidy-thieves-corrupt-businessmen-enthroned-saraki-dogara/


Cc: obinoscopy, lalasticlala

Summary pls

Baba talk less

temitemi1:
Baba talk less

Difficult to summarise a press release, I decide to bold some part for readers to get a clue.

innofyno:
Summary pls

temitemi1:
Baba talk less

Difficult to summarise a press release, I decide to bold some part for readers to get a clue.

Lwkmd

APC d majority in NASS
PDP controlling NASS

APC the 1st opposition ruling party in the world

story. so u guys don't see him as a progressive again. nonsense oil thieves enthroned saraki and dogara. we don't want those who wanted to be enthroned by a drug baron..

msmon:
Former Interim National Chairman of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Bisi Akande
has explained how some persons he tagged as
subsidy thieves, corrupt businessmen enthroned
Saraki and Dogara as Senate President and Speaker
of the House of Representatives respectively.

Akande in a statement on Sunday said those jittery
of President Muhammadu Buhari’s constant threat
of anti-corruption battle encouraged and financed
the rebellions against the APC democratic
positions, which led to the adoption of Saraki and
Dogara by the PDP.

He said the party must reposition for it to offer
Nigerians the change it promised.

According to the statement, “Sometimes in 2013,
the Action Congress OF Nigeria (ACN), All Nigeria
Peoples Party (ANPP) and Congress for Progressive
Change (CPC) resolved to merge and set up a
merger committee to work out the modality for
glueing together as one political party under one
name, one constitution and one manifesto.

“A splinter of the All Progressives Grand Alliance
(APGA) sought to be included in the merger. An
application made to the Independent National
Electoral Commission (INEC) to this end by All
Progressives Congress (APC) National Interim
Committee, composed of ACN, ANPP, CPC, and
factions of APGA and Democratic People’s Party
(DPP) was approved in July, 2013.

“Between Bola Ahmed Tinubu (an ACN leader) and
Kashim Imam (a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)
leader), the idea came up and was adopted that the
new party should embark on a membership
recruitment drive to certain PDP governors, whose
main agenda was to see President Goodluck
Jonathan out of power.

“The recruitment efforts took APC leaders to
Rivers, Kwara, Niger, Sokoto, Kano, Jigawa and
Adamawa states. Eventually, five PDP governors of
Sokoto, Kano, Adamawa, Kwara and Rivers, together
with the majority of their PDP National and State
Assemblies members and other PDP National
Assembly members from Gombe, Bauchi and
Nasarawa, under the banner of the new-PDP, joined
the APC.

“The APC thereafter organised membership
registrations in all the over 120,000 polling units
and followed up by using these registered members
to conduct congresses in all the almost 8000
wards, in over 770 local governments, in all the 36
states (including Abuja, the Federal Capital
Territory (FCT) and a convention at the National
level, thereby creating one united APC party
structure all over Nigeria.

“With this air of oneness, APC went ahead to
conduct primaries to select candidates for state
governors and Houses of Assembly and for the
presidency and the National Assemblies.

“After the elections, which saw the APC to victory
all round, a meeting was reported to have been held
by certain old and new-PDP leaders in Alhaji Kawu
Baraje’s house at Abuja to review what should be
their share in this new Buhari’s government and
resolved to seek collaboration with the PDP with a
view to hi-jacking the National Assembly and,
having got rid of Goodluck Jonathan, with an
ultimate aim of resuscitating the PDP as their
future political platform.

“Unknown to most APC members, while Senator
Bukola Saraki was being adopted as the candidate
for Senate President by certain old and new-PDP
tendencies, the theory was being propagated that,
like in most presidential democracies, the APC
minority leaders in the old National Assembly (i.e.
George Akume for the Senate and Femi
Gbajabiamila for the House of Representatives)
should automatically become Senate President and
Speaker respectively, now that APC has the
majority.

“Certain leaders felt that most past Senate
presidents had come from Benue State, which
Akume represented and that Benue State should be
made to assume the traditional home of all senate
presidents.

“At the same time, certain senators were
clamouring for one of the most ranking senators
anywhere outside the Northwest zone that
produced the President. That was how Ahmed
Lawan, who has been in the House of
Representatives for eight years and in the senate
for another eight years emerged as the candidate
for the senate president.

“Democrats among the APC leadership insisted on
selection by mock elections, rather than tribal or
sectional considerations. As a result of primary
elections, Ahmed Lawan and George Akume
emerged as APC candidate for Senate President
and Deputy respectively while Femi Gbajabiamila
and Mohammed Monguno emerged as the Speaker
and Deputy for the House of Representatives.

[b]“Numerous among those calling themselves
businessmen in Nigeria are like leaches, sucking
from the nation’s blood largely through various
governments and particularly through the Nigerian
Federal Government. While all these schisms were
going on in the APC, those who were jittery of
Buhari’s constant threat of anti-corruption’s battle
began to encourage and finance rebellions against
the APC democratic positions which led to the
emergence of Senator Saraki as the candidate of
the PDP tendencies inside and outside APC.

“Before the party knew it, the process had been
hijacked by polluted interests who saw the
inordinate contests as a loop-hole for stifling APC
governments’ efforts in its desire to fight
corruption.

“Most Northern elite, the Nigerian oil subsidy
barons and other business cartels, who never liked
Buhari’s anti-corruption political stance, are quickly
backing-up the rebellion against APC with strong
support. While other position seekers are waiting in
the wings until Buhari’s ministers are announced, a
large section of the Southwest see the rebellion as
a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba.[/b]

“What began as political patronages to be shared
into APC membership-spreads among ethnic zones,
religious faiths and political rankings and
experiences have now become so complicated that
the sharing has to be done by and among PDP
leadership together with cohorts of former new-
PDP affiliations in the APC, by and among gangs of
past anti-Buhari’s Presidency, and certain APC
legislators and party members who dance round the
crisis arena to pick some crumbs.

“Now that the whole conspiracy has blown open, it
is doubtful if the present institutions of party
leadership can muster the required capacity to
arrest the drift. It is my opinion that President
Buhari, and the APC governors should now see APC
as a recking platform that may not be strong
enough again to carry them to political victory in
2019 and they should quickly begin a joint damage
control effort to reconstruct the party in its claim to
bring about the promised change before the party’s
shortcomings begin to aggravate the challenges of
governance in their hands”.
.

http://dailypost.ng/2015/06/29/nass-crisis-akande-reveals-how-subsidy-thieves-corrupt-businessmen-enthroned-saraki-dogara/


Cc: obinoscopy, lalasticlala

^^^^^^^^
@msmon

This is information from dailypost.ng
that you posted is the REAL press release
from Chief Bisi Akande. Chief Akande did
NOT attack the Northerners like the
other post or article from TheCable
sensational headline potrayed, on Nairaland
front page.


Chief Akande should sue TheCable for
Defamation of Character and a FALSE
and misleading headline of his Press Release
that was made on Sunday (yesterday) about
the APC state of affairs.