OrderPaperToday – In a move reminiscent of the split of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in 2014, the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has been split into a faction led by mostly members of the National Assembly and some state government officials.
After series of futile meetings with the leadership of APC, the aggrieved members of the APC aggregated under the nPDP nomenclature which broke off from then ruling party, have decided to form a splinter group called Reformed-APC.
It is worthy to note that the Governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, Senate President, Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara and a host of members of the National Assembly belong to this splinter group.
The declaration on the group was made today by it’s national chairman, Buba Galadima, at a press conference in Abuja.
The R-APC expressed grave regrets that the change which the APC promised has become a mirage under the Muhammadu Buhari administration in the last three years, noting that attempts to turn the tide from within had been rebuffed and resisted.
According to Galadima, the APC has not only failed in running a “rudderless, inept and incompetent government” but was rascally in the conduct of its recent ward, local government, state and national congresses which were an open show of “impunity, total disregard for due process, disregard for the party Constitution and naked display of power and practices.”
The statement said: “We all witnessed on live television and at the venue, Eagles Square Abuja, that the Convention Chairman, only put the “Yes” question to all the delegates, using words to the effect: Do you affirm? Do you agree? There was no opportunity whatsoever given to the delegates to say whether they are voting “No” for any candidate as the “No” question was never put to them.
“It may well be that it the convention Chairman put the “No” Question, the voice vote for the “Noes”, may have been more. We will never know, since it was never done, contrary to the express provisions of the APC Constitution.”
The R-APC said it has constituted have officers in all the wards, 774 Local Governments, and all the 36 States of the Federation including the FCT, adding that it also has National Executive Committee, the National Working Committee and other organs of the Party are properly constituted and functional.
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