Chief Chekwas Okorei, presidential candidate of the
United Progressives Party, UPP, in the 2015 presidential election, has
declared that the ‘leader’ appendage which many call former Lagos governor,
Bola Tinubu, is just a nickname.
He also described the All Progressives Congress, APC, as a
party without a distinct leading light.
On the memo by Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai
to President Muhammadu Buhari, Okorie said there was nothing spectacular about
it except that it was written by El-Rufai.
“If you look at it, it was a memo written in September last
year and if it leaked now it points to the fact that probably the author felt
frustrated that it was not looked at and he decided that the world should know
he did not keep quiet when things were going wrong,” he told Vanguard.
“Before El-Rufai’s own, there was President Buhari’s
wife’s outburst which was also along the same line. It tells you of what is
happening in Buhari’s presidency. Magu, of the EFCC and the DSS exchanges and
all the things we hear.
”It shows a government that has totally mismanaged its
victory and a government with a party that is in disarray.
”It’s unfortunate for one to have reasons to cite PDP as a
good example but you have to give it to PDP that in 16 years, any time they
had anything that looked like a major skirmish that would take the party to the
brink, they would enter the Presidential Villa, hold a meeting and tell you
it’s a family affair.
”But here in APC the president gives the impression he
doesn’t want to meddle into the affairs of the party but he is the de-facto
leader of the party. APC seems to be like a party without a shepherd.”
Reminded that APC seems to have a shepherd in Tinubu, the
founding national Chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA,
responded: “That looks like a nickname.
“Because if there is an accredited meeting of the party,
Tinubu will not be there because he is not a member of NEC and this is APC that
is almost three years old but does not have a Board of Trustees, BOT, because
it couldn’t constitute one for fear of internal squabbles.
”It’s a shame the party cannot organize itself well. BOT
is about a group of elders that are put together to become the conscience of
the party; which intervenes in time of crisis such as this.
”There is unity now among the PDP senators and don’t be
surprised if one day they decide to target the president.
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