The center is refusing to hold for the All Progressives Congress (APC) as Senate President, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara; and a former governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso who are members will soon announce their exit from the party.
These foremost members of the former new PDP bloc are set to join the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) after a series of conflict with the APC government.
According to Premium Times, the new faction will be tagged the ‘new APC’ and will be part of a coalition of political parties and interests, to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 election.
The group which addressed a press conference said, it is now the “Reformed APC”, and the ‘authentic’ faction of the party.
It said at the press conference, Wednesday, that all members of the so-called nPDP, and defunct CPC, ANPP and ACN, are members of the new faction.
The press conference was addressed by Buba Galadima, a former secretary of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Mr Buhari’s former party; and a former minister and nPDP leader, Kawu Baraje.
Mr Galadima said the group took the decision because APC had disappointed Nigerians especially in not being able to tackle continuing killings across the country.
Hear him: “The Reformed All Progressive Congress, RAPC, national executive committee is constituted. We are assembled to address you on the state of our party, APC, the state of the nation and above all the constitutional democracy of Nigeria. I am standing here before you as the chairman of RAPC. You will recall that in 2015 general election some political parties came together to form a brand new political party called APC. This merger was based on the strong belief that Nigeria had come of age that it was severely under-performing and incapable to meet the potentials of good governance,” Mr Galadinma said.
“The Nigerian people gave power to APC based on its promises and potentials. We are sad to inform you that after more than three years of governance, our expectations (have been) completely dashed. The APC has run a ruthless and incompetent government that has failed to deliver good governance to the people. It has rather imposed dictatorship, impunity, abuse of power, complete application of constitutional and statutory responsibilities, impunity in the rule of law and constitutionality. It has failed to ensure the security and welfare of Nigerians and elevated nepotism to secondary height.”
Apart from the fact that many of the nPDP members like Saraki, former Adamawa governor, Murtala Nyako, and a senator, Dino Melaye, are facing corruption and other charges, some leaders complained about being sidelined during the party’s congresses that took place between May and June this year.
It is double bad news for the APC government the same day a high court ordered the National Assembly to begin impeachment process against Buhari.