Party members say they won’t return to APC
According to RAPC’s spokesman, Kassim Afegbua the party will not be moved by the juicy offers being made to its leaders.
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According to RAPC’s spokesman, Kassim Afegbua the party will not be moved by the juicy offers being made to its leaders.
Afegbua said that the APC leadership has been going door to door to offer incentives to its members, after ridiculing them publicly.
Daily Independent reports that he said “We members of the R-APC find it very amusing that those who boasted that they won’t lose sleep over our altruistic action, have been hopping from door to door pleading with our members not to leave by dangling juicy carrots and promising them heaven and earth.
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“Such level of double standard is the reason why the R-APC was birthed in the first place because the leadership is not one that keeps promises and it’s the reason why no one should take the APC serious.”
Saraki is now being celebrated
The RAPC spokesman also wondered how the Senate President, Bukola Saraki has now become the darling of APC.
Afegbua also mocked President Buhari for praising the judiciary’s decision to dismiss the charges levelled against him.
He said “It is interesting to suddenly see Mr. President holding meetings with the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, reportedly promising mouth-watering offers; the same leader who was ridiculed, scandalized, demonized, criminalized and called all sorts of names by agents of the presidency just to give the Senate President a bad name in order to hang him.
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“As soon as the Supreme Court gave a resounding verdict on the trumped up and frivolous charges against the Senate President, Mr. President suddenly felt a need to praise the judiciary for standing on its own. Hmm, power as they truly say, must be a crazy aphrodisiac.
“Never a time has the number 3 (three) citizen of Nigeria been so dehumanized, criminalised and disgraced in such whimsical manner while all the present reconciliators kept conspiratorial silence, waiting for the sledge hammer to fall on the Senate President. They tried all tricks, mounted all manner of pressures, raised all dubious allegations, just to nail the Senate President. They were short of calling him a promoter of armed robbery; they linked his name to the Offa Robbery and improvised all biles to rubbish the institution of the Legislature.
“They striped him naked in the market place and now desperately trying to bath him with ornaments in the inner fortress of Aso Rock. The Chairman of the Code of Conduct displayed magisterial arrogance in prosecuting the Senate President, but all that fell by the way side as the Supreme Court gave one of its landmark judgments in recent time by giving him a clean bill of health.”
Buhari’s government does not keep promises
The RAPC spokesman also took a swipe at Buhari’s administration, saying that it does not keep promises.
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He also cited the campaign promises made by the President before he was elected, saying that they have all been jettisoned.
“This government is never a promise keeper and some of the promises contained in the manifestos of the APC have been jettisoned. The president who has held himself in the inner sanctuary of the Presidential Villa is all of a sudden, opening his doors to one meeting or the other all in the name of re-election.”
“Pronto, all the political conspirators in the APC swoop into dubious reconciliation assignment, hopping from door to door at the thick of the night to strike deals of reconciliation. Those who said they won’t lose sleep over the R-APC, have become sleepless in the last two weeks. Does anyone need to be reminded that caveat emptor should be the operative words?
"Those who pleaded in the past, short of kneeling before their subordinates, ended up in the political belly of their benefactors when the re-election was concluded. It is an albatross that some people are still carrying till date. Examples abound in this our democracy and it is ringing bell in our consciousness every now and then,” he added.
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Also, the chairman of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC),Buba Galadimarecently alleged that Adams Oshiomhole, chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC) wants to kill him.
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