Huhuonline.com understands that there are palpable fear that fresh crisis may mar the All Progressive Congress(APC) over plot by the Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) to foist a Senator as national chairman of the party on members.
APC Youth Development and Solidarity Forum, who made the disclosure in a statement, Sunday, informed that APC may splinter if such arrangement is allowed.
The allegation was contained in a statement: “How governors Mohammed Badaru, Atiku Bagudu, Kayode Fayemi, and others have plotted to impose Senator Sani Musa and others as national chairman, Excos to satisfy the selfish interest of projecting Badaru/Fayemi ticket for 2023 Presidency” read by the secretary of the group, Chief Tobias Ogbeh.
Excerpt of the statement read: “We are constrained to invite you for this press briefing following our discovery of a plot to sabotage the APC by some desperate individuals that are working internally to implode the party. Ordinarily, the affairs of the APC should be left as its internal matters except that the people we are raising this alarm about, today, are not really after the APC. What they are after is the soul of Nigeria, which they want to own for their evil intent.
“All the evil that this cabal has perpetrated in the past months are geared towards illegally winning public offices at the highest level, so that they can continue to pillage the country and make a mockery of the progress that an APC government at the centre has brought to Nigeria by reversing all the gains made in the past six years.
“It is for this reason that we are raising the alarm now, so that Nigerians will know that people with less than sincere interest are on the verge of hijacking the APC and consequently impose a presidential candidate on Nigerians, use the popularity of the APC to win election and then capture power to the detriment of Nigerians. Therefore, the matter is no longer an internal issue of the APC.”
The forum alleged that the governors have hijacked the entire exercise given the way they fixed February 26, as date for the convention in flagrant disregard to the preferences expressed by stakeholders.
“Nigerians would be deprived of having an APC presidential candidate that passed the rigours of primary election. Governor Badaru Abubakar of Jigawa State, Governor Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State, Governor Atiku Bagudu of Kebbi State and their other desperate allies that include serving ministers have perfected plans to ensure that Senator Sani Musa is imposed as APC national chairman alongside other lackeys that would be named to other positions at the convention.
Senator Sani Musa would, in turn, deliver Bagudu as APC presidential flag-bearer and Kayode Fayemi as his running mate. They have cooked up what they called ‘unity list’ to package their evil plot as something positive and desirable for the party and the country when the contrary is the case. We want APC stakeholders and Nigerians to know that these state governors are working against the interest of the country.”
