Presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) Malam Nuhu Ribadu may call it quits with the party in the coming days following his dismal outing in the presidential election in the south west. Ribadu may be heading for Gen. Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), a source close to the CPC candidate has disclosed.


According to the source, Ribadu is yet to understand the record low turnout and ACN’s poor outing in the presidential election of April 16, a phenomenon that was exactly the opposite of the party’s feat during the National Assembly election the week before.


“In fact in the next two weeks, there is the possibility of him dumping the ACN for CPC,” the source said adding that some pressure groups within the ACN and the CPC are already holding talks.

The ACN won all but one of the senate seats and cleared most of the federal constituencies in the region that were contested on April 9. However, Ribadu lost to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in all the states in the zone apart from Osun State. In Lagos State, home of the party’s strongman Ahmed Bola Tinubu, the ACN lost woefully to the PDP which scored over a million votes leaving the ACN trailing behind with a little over 300, 000 votes.

“We feel completely betrayed by the ACN leaders. They brought him on board to give the party the semblance of a national party and also win international acceptance because of his international status. But you can see that they were clearly not sincere to us. If they say anything to the contrary, how could ACN lose steam within seven days and how do you explain the low turnout?” the source asked.

Reflecting back on the election, the source said the party’s leaders had starved the north of funds that were to be used to mobilise agents and failed to mobilise canvassers and agents in many states of the south west.

“They left us vulnerable in the north. We could not mobilise our agents most of whom succumbed to inducement by the PDP. We were also told that they failed to mobilise canvassers and agents like they did the previous week. In fact one senior leader of the party called me while voting was still going on and said we were losing Lagos already because of these problems,” he said.

The source also said three reasons informed the decision of the anti corruption tsar to look the way of the CPC. “First, he stands for the same principles as General Buhari especially on fighting corruption. Second, he has an untainted record of service like General Buhari and third, both men have a passion for reforming the system and getting it to work for the benefit of future generations,” he said.

According to him that is why Ribadu agreed to step down for Buhari in the last round of alliance talks before the election. Ribadu is also said to be angry that he was kept in the dark by Tinubu and some party leaders during the alliance talks with ACN.

The source also expressed regret that the ACN leaders are battling with the backlash of the party’s loss during the presidential election.

The source said: “They are in serious confusion now, thinking that it may boomerang. In fact Tinubu’s fear is that he might even lose Lagos, that is why you see the adverts and jingles have more than triple.

“You can trust PDP has every reason to justify whatever they do to win the election. They will say after all we won just last week.”



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Thank God my man Atiku don go rest.
See ashewo Ribadu crawling from party to party.

See as those "iru abua" westerners just play this 'jew guy' finish?

Mu he he he he he he

Dedi bodi wey nor know imsef!
Tufiakwa!

You will fail

I don pass finish.
Naija politics nor dey pay my 3 mortgages and 3 car payments!
Just for entertainment only. . .

To whom it may concern please!

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