The All Progressives Congress, APC, has raised an alarm that Nigeria under the leadership of the embattled President, Muhamamdu Buhari, is faced with another Yar-Adua era.
A Chieftain of the APC in Edo State, Charles Idahosa, described leaders of the party who are saying Buhari will contest in 2019 instead of praying for his health, as “sycophants.”
Recall, that the sudden death of former President, Umaru Yar’Ádua, paved way for the emergence of Goodluck Jonathan, as the then President of Nigeria.
Idahosa, a founding member of the APC in Edo State, spoke with Journalists on Wednesday evening, in Benin City, the State capital.
He said: “It is a shame that they are saying this, despite the President’s state of health. I expected these leaders to advise the President to go and get medical attention, while they find solution to the problems in the APC.
“We have a President who is sick, which of course is normal, because anybody can be sick. But for them to say that he will run for 2019 when he is yet to complete two years in office, is unfortunate.
“I feel worried and I fear for the APC. I thought the party would take advantage of the confusion in the main opposition party, that is the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, but from all indications, the APC is having problems, just the same way PDP is having problems.
“The way some top leaders and those powerful people at the national level are talking, it frightens me, and I fear for Nigeria.
“I feel sorry for President Buhari, because I can conclude without any fear of contradiction, that he is surrounded by sycophants and people that are just ready to tell him what he wants to hear. Nobody is telling him the truth and the country is drifting.
“I fear that we are going back to 2010 over the issue of his health and what happened to Yar’Adua, a situation where top members of the party and some persons in government will be talking about a president running for a second term when we are all aware that the man needs to take care of his health. It has nothing to do Buhari, anybody can fall sick at any time.
“I am not happy at the way things are going at the national level and the feud between the National Assembly and the Presidency might lead us to where we started from. We might just erode the gains since 1999 if we are not careful. I am using this opportunity to call on those at the top to forget about their self-interest and save the party.
“If you look at these whole things, the National Assembly, the Presidency, the confusion in the hierarchy of the party over to run or not to run, we shouldn’t be talking about that, we should be talking about the welfare of the president because when the president is not well, Nigeria is not well. It is because the party is not in control of its members in the National Assembly.”
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