A group of youths on Tuesday stormed the National Secretariat of the All Progressives Congress to protest what they claim is “Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s overbearing influence on party affairs.”
The youths, who came under the aegis of the All Progressives Congress Democratic Youth Frontiers, held several banners with anti-Tinubu slogans, some of which read: “We are united in APC, Tinubu can’t separate us;” “Tinubu is not God;” “Greed is not democracy;” “No room for an emperor”…
Only a week ago, All Progressives Congress, APC, national leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu had demanded the resignation of the national chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun who he claimed Sunday had derailed from the path of progressives.
In a communiqué from his media office, Tinubu accused Oyegun of sabotaging the will of democracy in Ondo State by overriding the decision of the appeal panel that asked for a fresh governorship primary following investigations that showed that the delegates’ list used had been tampered with.
Tinubu in the communiqué further alleged that Oyegun’s action in allegedly subverting the will of the people was not of his doing, saying that for a man of the age of the national chairman to have done what he did that he must have been under the influence of a “powerful and sinister arm at work.”
Tinubu who said that the APC was now under threat of being suffocated by anti-democratic forces pretending to be progressives, said: “The APC, a party born of the quest for democratic good governance, is under critical threat by those who managed to be in the party but never of it. From the party’s inception, the principles of democratic fairness and justice were to guide APC internal deliberations. Party founders realized that only by intramural fair dealing could the party remain faithful to the progressive ideals that we presented to the Nigerian electorate as our governing creed. If the party could not justly govern itself, it would find it difficult to establish and maintain just government throughout the nation.
