APC Crisis: Huge Setback for Tinubu as Prominent Chieftains Dumps Party’s Gov Candidate, Back Wike’s Ally

• The internal crisis rocking the Oyo State chapter of the ruling All Progressives Congress is far from over
• The crisis which started mainly from the emergence of Senator Teslim Folarin, as the governorship candidate of the party in the state, was rekindled over the weekend
• The party members are at loggerheads and have refused to come to unity, a few weeks before the 2023 general election

A lot is happening in Nigeria’s political space and these events, many experts noted could make or mar the forthcoming polls.

Less than two months to the 2023 general elections, the dust raised by October 2021 wards, local governments and state congresses of the Oyo State chapter of All Progressives Congress (APC) and the anger that greeted the emergence of Senator Teslim Folarin, as the governorship candidate of the party is yet to settle.

Oyo APC chieftains divided, refuse to work for Folarin

Meanwhile, the chieftains have shown their rejection in their refusal to work for the party’s governorship candidate in the forthcoming polls.

The Guardian reported that while some aggrieved leaders and aspirants angrily defected to other parties, those who stayed back are not pretending over their determination not to work for Folarin in the March 11 governorship election.

Aggrieved chieftains gives reason for their action

Despite committing them to the reconciliation committee’s decision, some of them have expressed displeasure at the manner Folarin and his loyalists have been handling the campaign without carrying them along.

Although, some of them confided in The Guardian that they would have left the party, if not for the emergence of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, as the Presidential candidate of the party.

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They believe that if Tinubu eventually wins the election, whatever they might have lost in Oyo State could as well be compensated for at the centre.

For instance, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN) and APC chieftain, Chief Adeniyi Akintola, who participated in the governorship primary but lost to Folarin, said though he had quit party politics, he is now supporting personalities who can win and engender development.

He disclosed that he is supporting only the presidential candidate of APC and Governor Seyi Makinde of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Oyo State.

For Akintola, only Makinde has what it takes to win Oyo State governorship contest, predicting that Tinubu will also be victorious at the election.

He disclosed that core progressives in APC, are now with Makinde.

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Meanwhile, Beatrice Nkwuda, a former woman leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Ebonyi Central, has spoken on why she recently defected to the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA).

During an exclusive interview by New Telegraph, Nkwuda claimed she was forced to change her mind about the APC when some former Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) members led by Governor Dave Umahi joined the ruling party.

The former APC woman leader said before Umahi’s defection from the PDP, she and her colleagues in the ruling party were at peace and liberty, but that everything changed when Umahi came on board.

Source: calabargistblog.com.ng