The National leader of Nigeria’s ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Sunday said that Senate President Bukola Saraki and Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal left the party because of their presidential ambitions

Tinubu added that Saraki and Tambuwal left because the APC could not offer them automatic tickets, sharing of the national wealth and other offices and privileges

The APC said this in a lengthy statement he personally signed, entitled “They Go Away Because We Go the Right Way,” on Sunday.

“Governor Tambuwal’s exit can be distilled to one cause. He covets the presidency. However, he had not the stomach to challenge President Buhari in a primary. Tambuwal felt further insulted that he would be compelled to face a direct primary just to retain the governorship

“But for the promise made by PDP headliners like Rivers State Governor Wike that he would have the PDP presidential nomination, Tambuwal would not have left. His exit had nothing to do with governance of the nation. It was about forging a personal ambition predicated on the defeat of progressive reform not the advancement of it”.

On why the Senate President left, Tinubu said, “Much the same for Senate President Saraki. Returning to the PDP, he harbors dreams of the presidency but Tambuwal’s ambition will dwarf Saraki’s when the two collide. If Saraki had remained in the APC, he would be unable to reclaim his Senate seat let alone the Senate Presidency. He thus bolted because he lusts for the presidency but was promised by the PDP, at least, a return to his position in the Senate”.

“For Saraki to talk about lack of governance is for him to deny who he is and the position he holds. This man stands as Nigeria’s Number 3 citizen. Clothed is he in ample power and influence. If he saw areas where government and the nation needed help, he could have easily applied his energies to these areas. He could have drafted legislation and easily got laws passed.

“However, no progressive enactment bears his name for he cared not for progress. He has been more focused on changing the rules of the Senate to favour himself and changing the order of elections so as to coincide with his selfish designs”.

Asiwaju Tinubu asked the people to go beyond the debate on the numbers in the Senate of House of Representatives, saying “we must pull back from the shallow headlines to recognize that something fundamental is at stake.

“Nigeria is undergoing a historic transition. Sometimes awkwardly, tentatively, yet inexorably, we nurture political and governance reform. We steadily close the door on the old malpractices that have caused a rich nation to reside in the tenement of the global poor”.

There is nothing wrong with ambition. Without a degree of ambition, we would never strive to improve and develop ourselves. But ambition, restrained by nothing but itself, is a dangerous commodity. Unwedded to social conscience, it leads to ruthlessness; it is the father of the deception that leaders are meant to lord over instead of to serve the populace.

In the final analysis, the reason for the defections is as clear to see as it is crooked in its motives. The APC seeks to reform governance and politics. However, many powerful people believe the established system assures their maximum benefit. Progressive reform would defeat them. They must fight reform and never be allied to it. Thus, they had to leave the APC.

“In a fundamental way, the APC may be better for their exit. It would be untrue to say their departures did not generate concern. As the air clears and we can better assess what is lost and gained by their exit, I can truthfully say the APC will be better off because they are gone.

“We can now focus more wholly on democratic governance inside and outside the party. Inside the party, we have adopted direct primaries to discourage corruption of the democratic process. Regarding public policy, we can now better articulate our progressive stance without having naysayers among complaining that we are going too far or that the good we seek for the people ought not to be done.

“We can more decisively push for the jobs program, expansion of social security for the poor, affordable housing programs and a viable mortgage system, national infrastructural program that will provide adequate power and potable water, basic health care for all, and educational reform.

“Each of these is important in itself. In combination, these objectives shall reshape the very landscape of our political economy. They shall bring fairness and prosperity where none has been. They will give the average person a government that serves them and the land that they deserve.

“But this prospect means a large segment of the political class will oppose the APC. We, as a party, must have the courage to accept this reality. Having decided to place the public welfare above the private welfare of the few, we must forge ahead no matter the foes aligned against us.

“This struggle toward a better Nigeria is hard, described more by difficult obstacles than by smooth passages. Had reform been easy, the task would have already been accomplished. Powerful hands have gathered to halt our collective move forward. Not everyone wants a better Nigeria for all. Those who profit from the imbalances of the past are those who fear a fairer tomorrow.

“Come the general election, the people will face a stark choice. If they want to relive the certain failure and inequality of the system the PDP had erected against their very interests, the people will walk the way of the defectors. If the people want to give themselves a better chance at an excellent nation, they will adhere to the path elected in 2015 when they voted for reform and the APC.

“I believe in the collective wisdom of the people. They will choose the right way for they are Nigerians which means they shall do what is right and just”.



” For Saraki to talk about lack of governance is for him to deny who he is and the position he holds. This man stands as Nigeria’s Number 3 citizen. Clothed is he in ample power and influence. If he saw areas where government and the nation needed help, he could have easily applied his energies to these areas. He could have drafted legislation and easily got laws passed.

“However, no progressive enactment bears his name for he cared not for progress. He has been more focused on changing the rules of the Senate to favour himself and changing the order of elections so as to coincide with his selfish designs.

“The rest of the defectors were given similar assurances by the PDP as to their offices. The APC refused to make such bargains as they are part of the ancient regime; these bargains are not of our democratic new way.

” This moral battle informed the recent defections. Those who belong to that PDP mode of thought could find no permanent comfort in walking the path of progressive reform and progress.

“All the things we have inaugurated such as school-feeding programs for poor pupils, social security for poor families, affordable housing programs, greater access to credit for small businesses and greater access to education and health care, these things the defectors could not well abide.

“They detested President Buhari’s Treasury Single Account (TSA) innovation because it barred them from mis-directing funds into a maze of unaudited accounts from which they could siphon as they pleased. Buhari cut off their clandestine illicit spigot.

“These politicians see accountable good governance and lifting of the common person as the tearing down of their quest for great riches and power.

“Even more so, they detested the APC drive toward greater internal democracy. They bristled when we demanded that congresses and conventions be held; they had demanded giving themselves automatic extension in their positions.

“They privately erupted as the APC decided that direct primaries where all party members vote on the party’s nominations should be the way of the future. The injection of greater democracy meant a decrease in their ability to manipulate end results. Politics will be ushered out of the backroom and given to the people to whom sovereignty genuinely belongs.

“These men could not countenance such transformation. They saw it not as the gift of democracy but as an obstacle that complicated their self-interest. They left the party to return to a motley agglomeration that would promise them what true democracy could not: automatic tickets, sharing of the national wealth and other offices and privileges.

“Their defection statements swell with high-sounding words and the attempted grasp of lofty ideals. While I shall refrain from being so coarse as to call these statements counterfeit, I must invoke a sufficient level of common sense for the protection of all.

“Anyone who accepts their statements at face value will quickly experience buyer’s remorse. Their attempt at fine notions aside, what compelled these people was galloping yet blind ambition.

http://www.metronaija.ng/saraki-tambuwal-apc-pdp-tinubu/

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Fantastic lies from the pit of hell.

To be honest dis saraki nd tambu guts really pain APC oooo

Saraki don pepper them gang
APC lacks internal democracy dazzal

Tinubu has been thrown a big fat bone from the dullard after sidelining him for 3yrs and now he can open his yellow toothed mouth to spew rubbish.

In all honesty, PMB will defeat these guys in any election. PMB will win in 2019 and may be by farther margin than in 2015. If you're in doubts, travel to the North and see for yourself.

Even APC only seeks for itself and not the people

Tell us why your teeth is rusty and stone coated.

Useless looter.



Cc Immhotep Lzza GMbuharii

This story is so touching ooooo

After the bye elections, Tinubu has got his grooves back. It's not uhuru yet, Mr national leader of the party.

jumpandpas:




https://www.google.com.ng/amp/s/www.thecable.ng/ribadu-people-of-northern-nigeria-most-backward-in-the-world/amp

The North maybe backward, but one thing I guarantee you they are well informed through their SW radios than most of you here who come online to rant and know nothing of any national or political occurrence.

Wiseandtrue:

So why did you impose Buhari on them

He cannot even keep a simple promise of a term bid

Tinubu, you are genuinely allowing yourself to be used again!

Only God knows the deal you struck this time

So please don't preach to us about greed and personal interest cause we ALL know that if we are to talk about that very topic, your name will appear nothing less than 1000 times!

We are WISER!

I don't know why Nairalanders has not learned anything yet.
You voice only count here,but perceptibly so loud that it comes close to a hiss of the breeze.

keeping voting out Buhari and sending to Daura on Nairaland while the real people do the real thing not rant.

IbnAbdullah1:


The North maybe backward, but one thing I guarantee you they are well informed through their SW radios than most of you here who come online to rant and know nothing of any national or political occurrence.

Stop drinking COW MILK

Saraki to Tinubu and APC

IbnAbdullah1:


I don't know why Nairalanders has not learned anything yet.
You voice only count here,but perceptibly so loud that it comes close to a hiss of the breeze.

keeping voting out Buhari and sending to Daura on Nairaland while the real people do the real thing not rant.

I am afraid you are not making sense...

The political oracle have spoken again. Very apt and truth filled speech by Jagaban of the universe.

The Jagaban of Nigeria himself...

Tinubu have now regained his voice after being hit by the gale of defections.

So Tinubu the chief looter can also accuse others of wanting to loot national wealth