A chieftain of APC, Waziri Bulama, has revealed that President Muhammadu Buhari’s position on 2023 is one of the factors fuelling the crisis rocking the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The past national secretary of the party, asserted this in an interview, conducted before the National Working Committee (NWC) was dissolved by the National Executive Committee (NEC).
Bulama stated that the interests in a party are very diverse and varied, he also added that the pressures, interests and demands within the registered members cause no threat to the survival of the party.
He said:
“there are some who want power, there are people who only want empowerment, and there are those who want influence, employment, respect and acknowledgement.”
“I have not seen the threat of the breakup of this party. But I have seen pressures, tensions to occupy one post or the other especially calls for why is there no NEC, why is there no this and that? I am saying that all the 14 organs had been in comatose.
“The court cases are triggered by some of these interests some of which are political, some personal. For instance, political ambition; someone thinks that if he takes over the party, he can use it for this purpose or that.
“For me, a party should function like any well-established institution. When you say institution, the police and army are institutions. The federal civil service with the head of the service is also an institution. The Nigerian government with the SGF is an institution.
“We have not taken enough steps to make sure that the political parties are institutions except for about six months ago when President Buhari in addressing Oshiomhole and APC governors, as if he knew, said please go and institutionalise this party because he wanted this party to become a much-institutionalised institution that can stand the test of time.”
“Fundamentally, let me say that all the members of this party and all the people who are following Buhari because of what he symbolises.
“They follow him because of the values he upholds and what he stands for. President Buhari is a man who has been known to be a man of integrity. He is a man who believes in the rule of law, transparency and accountability,” he said
Balami However dismissed the rumor that the party may disintegrate after President Buhari’s Tenure which ends in 2023. He stated that party will always be in accordance.
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