Admin l Thursday, July 05, 2018
ABUJA, Nigeria – The cracks in the All Progressive Congress(APC) has burst into the open, with the party breaking into two, leading to the formation Reformed All Progressive Congress(R-APC).
At a press conference in Abuja, former Secretary of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change, Alhaji Buba Galadima was introduced as the National Chairman of the group. This is coming following breakdown of talks between the nPDP that left PDP to fuse into the APC with President Muhammadu Buhari.
He told a press conference in Abuja that members of the R-APC includes all the progressive forces in the APC. He did not name key members of the party. Galadima recalled that in the build up to the 2015 General elections, some political parties and groups came together, and formed a brand called the APC. He said Nigerians however entrusted power to the APC based on its promises and potentials.
“We are sad to report that after more than three years of governance, our hopes have been betrayed, our expectations completely dashed. The APC has run a rudderless, inept and incompetent government that has failed to deliver good governance to the Nigerian people. “It has rather imposed dictatorship, impunity, abuse of power, complete abdication of constitutional and statutory responsibilities, infidelity to the rule of law and constitutionalism.
“It has failed to ensure the security and welfare of our people and elevated nepotism to unacceptable height. The APC has failed to deliver on its key promises to the nation. “There is no evidence of any political will to reverse the decline of our party, while leaders who have created these circumstances continue to behave as if Nigerians owe our party votes as a matter of right.`’
“The APC government, has been a monumental disaster, even worse than the government it replaced. “The political party that was a vehicle for enthroning the government was rendered powerless by manipulations and complete lack of due process in its operations.’’ Galadima said the last straw, that broke the party was the congresses and Convention of the APC held recently. He said that the congresses were intensely disputed as it was conducted with impunity, total disregard for due process, disregard for the party constitution and naked display of power and practices that had no place in the party.
“There are countless cases in courts all over the country challenging the legality of congresses and even the National Convention itself. It is very likely that the judicial decisions on these cases will result in massive chaos, confusion and uncertainties. The fate of a party in this state with a few months to the elections is best left to the imagination, but it is not a fate we believe our millions of members should be abandoned to,’’ he said.
