Group seeks Buhari’s intervention in APC crisis

Members of the All Progressives Congress under the aegis of the Kaduna Coalition for Change have urged Maj. Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.), to rein in individuals who were exploiting their closeness to him to sabotage the party.

The group noted that the Kaduna State chapter of the APC was being sabotaged by the activities of individuals which it said had no electoral value other than an arrogant claim of closeness to Buhari.

This was contained in a statement jointly signed by Alhaji Aminu Gyellesu (Northern Senatorial Zone), Hajiya Hafsat Baba (Central Senatorial Zone), and Dr. Stanley Adamu Mamman (Southern Senatorial Zone), in Abuja on Monday.

According to the group, the party has suffered stunted growth in the state since the commencement of the APC congresses on April 5.

This, they explained, was so because the congresses had been marred by what it called the “old cancerous authoritarian practices of imposition of leaders, subversion of wishes of party members and flagrant use of money to buy votes.”

The aggrieved party members said, “Some of these actions are being perpetuated by vested interests whose desire is to control the party leadership in order to pave the way for their emergence as the party flag-bearers for elective offices in the 2015 general elections.”

Source: The Punch