The former Special Adviser on
Political Affairs, Prof. Rufai Ahmed Alkali to the former President of Nigeria,
Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, has said that the recent problems
encountered by the All Progressive Congress, (APC) in the election of leadrs of
the National Assembly was a vindication of his position that the party was not
prepared to govern a complex nation like Nigeria.
Speaking with state House
Correspondents in Abuja, Prof. Alkali said from the reactions of some leaders
of the Party to the events at the national Assembly, President Buhari’s
greatest problem is the people in the leadership of APC and not the Peoples
Democratic Party.
According to him, “I have
observed with keen interest the scenario in the National Assembly that resulted
in the election of Sen. Bukola Saraki and Rt. Hon. Yakubu Dogara and other
leaders of NASS and what attracted my attention more, though not surprising,
were the incoherent and contraditory responses from the leaders of the APC,
especially the faction led by the former Governor of Lagos, Sen. Ahmed Bola
Tinubu who outrightly rejected the outcome of the election and without decorum
blamed President Muhammadu Buhari as being responsible for the debacle in the
National Assembly.
“This is indeed a clear
confirmation of my earlier warning to the APC to plan more and talk less.
Undoubtedly, things have started falling apart in the APC.
From the look of things, the
greatest obstacle to the Muhammadu Buhari administration is not the PDP and
other political parties, but some of the over ambicious leaders and members of
his Party, the APC who believe they have invested so much in his election and
can not wait a day longer to collect returns from their investments” Prof.
Alkali said.
He said the emergence of Sen.
Ike Ekweremadu of the PDP as Deputy President of the Senate was an indication
that PDP was not dead as some people claim.
“Whoever said that the PDP is
dead and buried should please show me the cemetery and the grave where the PDP
was buried. Nigerians should not forget the fact that some of the members of
the PDP who joined the APC went there as a result of some circumstance but the
souls and minds of most of them are still in the PDP. Remember, most of those
who left were founding fathers and senior leaders of the PDP in their
respective States and Zones. This is therefore just the beginning of the
beginning”
He congratulated the newly
leadership of the National Assembly and saying that they should be ready to
face the task of uplifting the nation.
“May I also use this occasion
to congratulate Sen. Bukola Saraki, the new President of the Senate and his
Deputy, Sen. Ike Ekweremadu, the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Rt.
Hon. Yakubu Dogara and his Deputy, Hon. Yusuf Lasun and other newly inaugurated
members of the two Chambers of the National Assembly. I wish them well and urge
them to put the events of last week behind and forge ahead in the discharge of
their duties. I also wish to remind them that the task of moving the nation
forward lies squarely on their shoulders irrespective of their political
affiliations” the former Special said
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