John Oyegun, a former chairman of the All Progressives
Congress (APC), says the ruling party is fast becoming a threat to the legacy
of President Muhammadu Buhari and his government.
The former chairman said this in reaction to the leadership
crisis that has engulfed the APC following a court of appeal order upholding
the suspension of Adams Oshiomhole as national chairman of the party.
While Abiola Ajimobi, a former Oyo governor, has been
declared as acting chairman, Victor Giadom, APC national secretary, said he is
in charge of the party.
In a statement on Saturday, Oyegun said in the past few
months, the party has “brazenly subverted” its own principles of internal
democracy.
The former chairman said APC’s victory at the 2015
presidential poll and the peaceful transfer of power that followed is a major
testament of progress in the nation’s democracy but while other African
countries have marched forward, Nigeria is “regressing.”
“Our own political party, the APC, is fast becoming the
single most dangerous threat to the legacy of our government and our
president,” he said.
“In the last few months we have watched how the party has
brazenly subverted its own principles of internal democracy and flagrant
violation of every rule of decent political engagement in a manner that makes
everyone associated with its promise of change liable to be accused of either
hypocrisy or apostasy.
“We must therefore remember that our victory in the 2015
Presidential elections and the peaceful transfer of power that followed was a
major testament of progress in our nation’s journey towards real democracy.
“This unprecedented democratic achievement has since
inspired progressive forces all over Africa and has become a standard by which
democracy is measured in the rest of the continent.
“Unfortunately, it appears that while other countries around
us have marched ahead in the democratic journey, we have largely regressed.”
Oyegun said there is a need for the national executive
committee (NEC) of the APC to meet and set up a caretaker panel.
“There is a most urgent need for the party NEC to meet and
institute for the party a caretaker committee (even if we have to invoke the
doctrine of necessity), whose main responsibility will be to arrange for a
special national convention,” he said.
The former chairman said it hurts “deeply” to see how hollow
it is to mention APC and change together”.
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