Pioneer national chairman of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) and former chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Rufai Hanga, on Friday said Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, former Lagos state governor and APC national leader, is suffering silently within the party.

Hanga, who disclosed to DAILY INDEPENDENT that he has resigned his membership of the party, also said Tinubu is still standing strong today despite all the humiliation he has suffered in the APC because he is ‘super-human’.

He said an ordinary person would have collapsed long ago if faced with the kind of treatment meted to Tinubu in the party.

Also speaking on why he dumped the APC, Hanga said there is no way the APC will survive an implosion in the coming days with the various cracks and divisions in the party.

“You don’t abandon a house you built but there are times when you have to abandon it. When you build a house and the house is cracking and you did everything to amend it but all your efforts are futile. When you see it collapsing on you, what do you do? Will you wait for it to collapse on you?

“No sane person will wait for the house to collapse on him, you will run away. That is what I have done by dumping the APC. I walked away from the party because I know the house is collapsing and I don’t want it to collapse on me.

“All this while, we did our best to mend all the cracks but unfortunately, I think it is not amendable. Nobody can remedy what is happening in APC now. There are people in the party who have suffered in the party and laboured financially even more than me. If they can be suffering like this under APC, then who else is spared?

“Look at how Asiwaju Tinubu is suffering in APC silently. He is completely sidelined. Just because the man is a super-human that is why he is still standing. If he were an ordinary human being, he would have collapsed. He has really endured a lot. That is why he is overcoming so many things. So, if people like Tinubu can be going through suffering despite his role in the formation of APC, who am I?”

“That is why I decided to walk away because with the way things are going, there is no way the party will survive. How many cracks are there now in the party? How many factions are there now? We have about three to four factions and it is next to an impossibility to bring them together.”

FarahAideed:
Tinubu suffering and smiling in APC

“Look at how Asiwaju Tinubu is suffering in APC silently. He is completely sidelined. Just because the man is a super-human that is why he is still standing. If he were an ordinary human being, he would have collapsed. He has really endured a lot. That is why he is overcoming so many things. So, if people like Tinubu can be going through suffering despite his role in the formation of APC, who am I?”

FarahAideed:
Tinubu suffering and smiling in APC

Dsalvo:


Unlike sentimental folks who will start throwing tantrums, and rolling on the floor pathetically , Tinubu is intelligent enough to know there will be life after Buhari.

Abacha was once feared as a dictator who was larger than life. Yet Nigeria and Tinubu moved on from him. Buhari has approximately 17 months to be President officially. The clock is ticking.

yorubarere:
They know he is a strongman, that is why they want to hijack the party for themselves. Awon werey. Forgetting that Tinubu is not a guy you can sly, even the opposition feared him when they were in power.

mrvitalis:
Oga please close your mouth na ..we know na

Do you want igbos to laugh at us ?

Let's suffer in silence please

Dsalvo:
Buhari is an awful politician who has destroyed the APC and the hardwork of many dedicated and loyal Party men and leaders.

He does not give a toss about political processes and political entities like Parties, caucuses etal.

He is the type who arrogantly views political Parties as a means to an end for him and his interest.

We will see how this will pan out because it is Buhari's interest that will suffer the most if APC implodes through his divisive actions in the Party over the years.

PrinceOfLagos:


Buhari is the father of APC , he decides what happens

yorubarere:

You will chock on your hate bro

PrinceOfLagos:


I told you that Tinubu will be so disgraced before 2023 but you called me IPob

omenkaLives:
Exactly. No one has weathered the kind of political storm Tinubu has in his political career, and he does so in utter silence.

Imagine what he went through under pdp in the hands of Obj. Gentleman didn't throw in the towel, but rather silently rebuilt the opposition, routing the ruling party in an entire region, and ultimately clinching the most prized political asset for his party- the presidency.

Tinubu is a legend in his own right, but I don't expect "those people" to acknowledge that.

PrinceOfLagos:


Buhari is the father of APC , he decides what happens

Dsalvo:


You are so unintelligent. So dense, you even miss what is so very obvious.

I'd like to believe you are 10 years old, as excuse for your extremely slow reasoning, otherwise I shudder to think I am talking to a grown adult.

yorubarere:

You see, you finally mentioned Tinubu

I bet you will hang if that becomes the CinC come 2023

Tinubuadvocate:
This one is crying because no appointment yet.

PrinceOfLagos:


He's crying for Tinubu