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A founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has said that only respect for President Muhammadu Buhari is all that is left of the APC and that the crisis rocking the party was part of consequences for relegating the founding members.

Okorocha who addressed some journalists on Sunday in Abuja said that there is no more APC.

According to him, the party that is smarting from internal crisis after the 2019 general elections, died the day the leadership abandoned the progressive and democratic ideals on which it was founded.

Okorocha, who is also the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, said that apart from President Buhari, the other leaders of the political blocks that merged to form the party in 2015, were practically schemed out by forces that later joined the party.

“Permit me to give you the inside of APC, this word APC was formed by four major political parties that had governors, one was the CPC led by President Muhammadu Buhari, ACN led by Ahmed Tinubu, ANPP led by Ogbonnaya Onu who all brought their structure, APGA led by me brought in our structure. Every other person fell into this structure. The PDP group came in and joined us. I gave the name APC. I designed that logo and that was the beginning of the party and we had understanding.

“That is the party you call APC and unless we go back to where it all started, APC can never see the light of the day and that was how we started and that was what brought President Muhammadu Buhari to office.

You cannot rule out the role of these four key people, then CPC has only one governor in Nasarawa, APGA had only one governor, ACN came with the chunk of the governors and ANPP had a few. And we shared the first positions equally among these four parties. Now the founding fathers of the part are relegated to the backgrounds and people are coming with different interests making us play the same kind of politics that PDP played,” Okorocha said.

He added, “There is no more APC, what we have is the respect for President Muhammadu Buhari, that is what is keeping us together. What we have is our respect for the person of President Buhari and we still believe that something can be done.

“That trust and respect is what we still call APC, outside that, respect for President Buhari and the trust and belief that he could wake up one day and correct all these injustices and make it fine. That is the only thing that is keeping the APC, if not that, I don’t think there is anything like APC because people are beginning to get fed up. Again, PDP is not even better, the party has its own challenges.

Osagyefo98:
founding member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, has said that only respect for President Muhammadu Buhari is all that is left of the APC and that the crisis rocking the party was part of consequences for relegating the founding members.

Okorocha who addressed some journalists on Sunday in Abuja said that there is no more APC.

According to him, the party that is smarting from internal crisis after the 2019 general elections, died the day the leadership abandoned the progressive and democratic ideals on which it was founded.

Okorocha, who is also the Senator representing Imo West Senatorial District, said that apart from President Buhari, the other leaders of the political blocks that merged to form the party in 2015, were practically schemed out by forces that later joined the party.

“Permit me to give you the inside of APC, this word APC was formed by four major political parties that had governors, one was the CPC led by President Muhammadu Buhari, ACN led by Ahmed Tinubu, ANPP led by Ogbonnaya Onu who all brought their structure, APGA led by me brought in our structure. Every other person fell into this structure. The PDP group came in and joined us. I gave the name APC. I designed that logo and that was the beginning of the party and we had understanding.

“That is the party you call APC and unless we go back to where it all started, APC can never see the light of the day and that was how we started and that was what brought President Muhammadu Buhari to office.

You cannot rule out the role of these four key people, then CPC has only one governor in Nasarawa, APGA had only one governor, ACN came with the chunk of the governors and ANPP had a few. And we shared the first positions equally among these four parties. Now the founding fathers of the part are relegated to the backgrounds and people are coming with different interests making us play the same kind of politics that PDP played,” Okorocha said.

He added, “There is no more APC, what we have is the respect for President Muhammadu Buhari, that is what is keeping us together. What we have is our respect for the person of President Buhari and we still believe that something can be done.

“That trust and respect is what we still call APC, outside that, respect for President Buhari and the trust and belief that he could wake up one day and correct all these injustices and make it fine. That is the only thing that is keeping the APC, if not that, I don’t think there is anything like APC because people are beginning to get fed up. Again, PDP is not even better, the party has its own challenges.

https://dailytrust.com/what-is-left-of-apc-is-just-respect-for-buhari-okorocha

tesppidd:
And so also the same Buhari has remained the fundamental problem of the APC from day one.

His aloofness and indifference to his party's challenges and elections is sickening.

Too bad that Adams has to take the blame for everything when all he tried to do was instill party discipline.

If only Buhari had gotten involved from the beginning and supported his party chariman then most of these big egos would have been checked from day one!

Just like Obj and Gej, the President has got to be more involved,
Help the chairman.

These governors, ministers and senators can't listen to some party chairman.
Only the President.

Since this democratic dispensation in 99, no ruling party has lost more states than Buhari's APC at off season elections.

And Buhari is the major culprit.

APC lost Edo because the party has been factionalized into 2 groups;
1. The Presidency faction.
2. The Tinubu faction.

Buhari always loves to play neutral during elections thinking he could win commendations from all Nigerians including the PDP;

But the PDP only have a knack of praising democracy and the will of the people when things go well but bash Buhari when things go bad for them.

Yet Buhari has refused to learn from this. The same party faitfulds who worked for him to become Presidnet he abandons them when elections come around.


Top APC chieftains can't really say this in public but the root cause of all the problems and the losses in the APC is Buhari himself.

tesppidd:
And so also the same Buhari has remained the fundamental problem of the APC from day one.

His aloofness and indifference to his party's challenges and elections is sickening.

Too bad that Adams has to take the blame for everything when all he tried to do was instill party discipline.

If only Buhari had gotten involved from the beginning and supported his party chariman then most of these big egos would have been checked from day one!

Just like Obj and Gej, the President has got to be more involved,
Help the chairman.

These governors, ministers and senators can't listen to some party chairman.
Only the President.

Since this democratic dispensation in 99, no ruling party has lost more states than Buhari's APC at off season elections.

And Buhari is the major culprit.

APC lost Edo because the party has been factionalized into 2 groups;
1. The Presidency faction.
2. The Tinubu faction.

Buhari always loves to play neutral during elections thinking he could win commendations from all Nigerians including the PDP;

But the PDP only have a knack of praising democracy and the will of the people when things go well but bash Buhari when things go bad for them.

Yet Buhari has refused to learn from this. The same party faitfulds who worked for him to become Presidnet he abandons them when elections come around.


Top APC chieftains can't really say this in public but the root cause of all the problems and the losses in the APC is Buhari himself.

joyandfaith:
so buhari should rig election abi?
it is revolution vote

Osagyefo98:
See pain ooo

tesppidd:
And so also the same Buhari has remained the fundamental problem of the APC from day one.

His aloofness and indifference to his party's challenges and elections is sickening.

Too bad that Adams has to take the blame for everything when all he tried to do was instill party discipline.

If only Buhari had gotten involved from the beginning and supported his party chariman then most of these big egos would have been checked from day one!

Just like Obj and Gej, the President has got to be more involved,
Help the chairman.

These governors, ministers and senators can't listen to some party chairman.
Only the President.

Since this democratic dispensation in 99, no ruling party has lost more states than Buhari's APC at off season elections.

And Buhari is the major culprit.

APC lost Edo because the party has been factionalized into 2 groups;
1. The Presidency faction.
2. The Tinubu faction.

Buhari always loves to play neutral during elections thinking he could win commendations from all Nigerians including the PDP;

But the PDP only have a knack of praising democracy and the will of the people when things go well but bash Buhari when things go bad for them.

Yet Buhari has refused to learn from this. The same party faitfulds who worked for him to become Presidnet he abandons them when elections come around.


Top APC chieftains can't really say this in public but the root cause of all the problems and the losses in the APC is Buhari himself.

Yobabad:
The only people who can shamelessly vote APC again in Nigeria are : (a) Yoruba Muslims (b) Niger Delta (C) southern kaduna, we have a reward for the first three people that gets correct answer