National
Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Bola Tinubu has been berated
for not learning from the past over his alliance with the north.
Pastor, Femi Aribisala
Pastor, Femi Aribisala has described a National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu "an experienced politician, but a bad student of history."
He said this while reacting to the allegation of conspiracy against
Tinubu by some Northern politicians within the APC. Tinubu had demanded
the resignation of APC’s National Chairman, John Oyegun over his
decision to overrule its Appeal Committee which recommended the
cancellation of the Ondo governorship primary election.
Aribisala, a social commentator and public analyst, in an interview
with the Punch berated Tinubu for opting to continually form alliance
with the North which has never had “any progressive pretensions.”
According to Aribisala, “Tinubu is an experienced politician, but a bad student of history.
“In 2011, he formed an alliance with Abubakar Atiku and the
People Democratic Movement, who represents a more progressive part of
the North, but could not prevail against the colossus of the PDP.
“Therefore, in 2015, he entered into an alliance with Buhari
and the core North, which has never even had any progressive
pretensions. There is nothing progressive about President Buhari.
“Everything about the president’s politics was smoke and
mirrors. He commanded the support of a significant number of the
Northern poor, in spite of the fact that there is absolutely nothing in
his CV about advancing the interests of the poor.
“He is a conservative politician opposed to any restructuring
of Nigeria’s polity through a national conference. His only claim to
popular appeal is a questionable belief that he is anti-corruption.
“It was only a matter of time before uneasy bed-fellows of the
APC came to logger-heads. Once the election was won, the APC started
falling apart. The PDP wing of the party conducted a coup and hijacked
the National Assembly. Now the organs of the party have been wrenched
from Tinubu’s Action Congress of Nigeria.”
He added that the anti-graft war of the Buhari-led administration was just a mere fight targeted at the opposition parties.
He said, “There is actually no real war against corruption
going on today. There is not even a fight against corruption, how much
more a war. What we have is a government attempt to decimate the
opposition and create a de facto one-party state under the guise of
fighting against corruption.
“The PDP was not the only party in power before 2015. Parties
of the APC coalition were also in power at the state level. So why is it
that only the PDP is being prosecuted?
“You cannot fight corruption with corruption. That is what the
government has been doing. You cannot fight corruption by abrogating the
rule of law. We have heard so much hyperbole about this fight against
corruption, but with very little actual results. It has all been just
one big propaganda exercise. The fight against corruption has become a
poor and pathetic make-shift substitute for effective public policy.
“As we get closer and closer to 2019, the fighting will become
more vicious and more incendiary. I don’t expect the APC to survive.”
No comments:
Post a Comment