Former speaker of the House of
Representatives, Ghali Na’Abba, has said he regretted leaving the Peoples
Democratic Party, PDP for the All Progressives Congress, APC, in 2015.
Na’Abba said this in an interview
with Vanguard where he also accused President Muhammadu Buhari of running a
one-man show.
The ex-Speaker, whose house was
burnt down for supporting the PDP in 2011 but took the painful decision to
leave for the APC, said his expectations for leaving the PDP to APC have not
been met, adding that he only has regrets.
He said, “My experience in the
APC is such that I only have regrets to tell because I found a party that is
divided and there is no unity of purpose.
“It is a party that produced the
president but the president does not work with the party. In fact the president
does not work with anybody. He works only with himself.
“That is one of the problems that
he has. A lot of the people that worked with him for twelve years have left him
because he does not even seem to know what is happening to him.
“My experience in the APC is that
in the last three years, there were only four or five caucus meetings. The time
lag between the first one in February 2016 and the second one in October/
November 2017 was sixteen months.
“I was not invited to the fourth
and fifth meetings because in an interview with a Network I indicated my intention
not to support Buhari’s re-election in 2019.
“A situation where dissent is not
tolerated in a democratic arrangement portends danger to our democracy.
Therefore, the party and Buhari have become one and the same thing.
“APC is an amalgam of interests
that came together to do away with the PDP which by the grace of God they
succeeded.
“The President of the Federal
Republic of Nigeria in now from the party. But instead of the president to
coalesce the disparate tendencies within the party, so that it becomes
cohesive, he decided to operate a one man show, working neither with the party
nor the National Assembly.
“The result is what we are seeing
today in the congresses of the party across the country. Today the new PDP
faction in the APC is saying it wants to opt out of the party. You can see very
little of the former ANPP in the government.
“The only visible tendencies in
the government are a little of the ACN and the CPC and even the CPC, majority
of members still feel marginalized.
“The party is not being operated
like a party because there is no connect between the president and the party.
In almost all the states, it is the same thing going on between the governors
and party members.
“The party becomes active only when the
president or the governors need to use it. So honestly there is almost no
reason for me to claim that I am better off in the APC than in the PDP.”
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