A chieftain of
the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Edo State, Charles Idahosa, has lamented
that Nigeria is faced with another Yar’Adua era.
He described
leaders of the party who are saying President Muhammadu Buhari will contest in
2019 instead of praying for his health as “sycophants.”
Idahosa, a
founding member of the APC in Edo State, spoke with journalists yesterday in
Benin City, the state capital.
He also said
that the ongoing crisis between the leadership of the National Assembly and the
Presidency was as a result of the failed leadership in the APC.
He said, “It is
a shame that they are saying this despite the President’s state of health. I
expected these leaders to advise the President to go and get medical attention
while they find solution to the problems in the APC.
“We have a
President who is sick, which of course is normal because anybody can be sick.
But for them to say that he will run for 2019 when he is yet to complete two
years in office, is unfortunate.
”I feel worried
and I fear for the APC. I thought the party would take advantage of the
confusion in the main opposition party, that is the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, but from all indications, the APC is having problems just the same way PDP
is having problems.
“The way some
top leaders and those powerful people at the national level are talking, it
frightens me and I fear for Nigeria.
“I feel sorry
for President Buhari because I can conclude, without any fear of contradiction,
that he is surrounded by sycophants and people that are just ready to tell him
what he wants to hear. Nobody is telling him the truth and the country is
drifting.
“I fear that we
are going back to 2010 over the issue of his health and what happened to
Yar’Adua, a situation where top members of the party and some persons in
government will be talking about a president running for a second term when we
are all aware that the man needs to take care of his health. It has nothing to
do Buhari, anybody can fall sick at any time.
“I am not happy
at the way things are going at the national level and the feud between the
National Assembly and the Presidency might lead us to where we started from. We
might just erode the gains since 1999 if we are not careful. I am using this
opportunity to call on those at the tope to forget about their self-interest
and save the party.
“If you look at
these whole thing, the National Assembly, the Presidency, the confusion in the
hierarchy of the party over to run or not to run, we shouldn’t be talking about
that, we should be talking about the welfare of the president because when the
president is not well, Nigeria is not well. It is because the party is not in
control of its members in the National Assembly.”
Source: DailyPost
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