Politics APC Will Soon Disintegrate- Belgore

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Governorship candidate of the defunct Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Muhammed Dele Belgore (SAN), on Friday told newsmen that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is getting stronger from its present crisis and that the All Progressives Congress (APC) would soon disintegrate.

“Today is symbolic because people have waited with baited breath for us to make a pronouncement on our political future. The expectations and the anxieties are understandable, given the happenings in the APC, which we laboured hard to nurture to a party of choice in Kwara State from its ACN days. Hopes had risen that with the birth of APC, the struggle for socio-economic development of our dear state, which we began in 2010, would be better served under a stronger and broader political platform.

“But that hope evaporated very quickly. An alliance of those who yearn for change and development and those who desire to maintain the status quo of oppression and denial of opportunity was suddenly foisted upon us. By that alliance, the politics of patronage, of denial, of merit based opportunity, of running the state like personal assets, of deploying public wealth for the benefit of a select few, of selling the state’s assets to shadow private concerns was given new strength. But it is not just about pitching of the voices of change against the forces of retrogression.

“It is also about the manner it was done. We said yes, anyone could be admitted to the party but we insisted that it is undemocratic, inequitable and even contrary to the very idea of change that APC claims it stands for, to undemocratically hand over the party structures to new entrants, especially when the entrants are at the commanding heart of oppression and arrested development of Kwara State and its people,” he said.

Belgore said that “not only does this arrangement confer the party structure on these new entrants, it is pre-determined to ensure that they continue, no matter the presence of internal election, to control it. Thus by this ultimately self-defeating arrangement, the APC had determined the scores of the game before kick-off. The same ugly trend occurred in Kano, Sokoto and some other states.

“The APC leadership had in seeking to satisfy a few, alienated the rank and file and, to many, the soul of the party. The owner of a home should not be displaced to give a sense of friendship to a stranger. All efforts to obtain redress within the APC have failed.”



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