Kawu Baraje, a chieftain of the All
Progressives Congress (APC), has issued a note of warning to leaders of the
ruling party, saying the issues that made him leave the Peoples Democratic
Party (PDP) have started arising in APC.
Baraje, a former acting chairman of PDP, said the ruling
party has lived below expectation since it took over the reins of government
nearly one year ago.
Baraje was the one who announced the formation of a faction of the
PDP, leading six governors of the party to eventually align with the APC in
2013.
“If I have to be grateful to any political party, I think, it is
the PDP and if I can leave that party, then you will know that the party had
gone seriously against my principles of life,” he told journalists at a press
briefing in Ilorin.
“If I can leave the PDP because of impunity, lack of respect for
the rule of law, then do I want to continue in another party that way? But it
has not got to that level. That is why we are sounding a note of warning that
gradually some of these problems are creeping into the APC.”
The ally of Senate President Bukola Saraki said most of the
problems confronting the APC were self-created.
He said the division in the party has made it lose most of the
rerun elections that have been conducted since it formed government at the
centre.
“Most of the distractions were created by APC itself. For
instance, Senate President Bukola Saraki, who is heading an important arm of
government, is not getting the necessary support from the party,” he said.
“We have participated in rerun elections, both at the state and
national levels, and the APC has lost majority of those elections, not because
of lack of popularity but because of lack of enough presence.
“Some of us,with our experience, expected the national presence of
our party much more during reruns, but we do not see that happening.”
On the current situation of things in the country, he said: “I
belong to the group that is not satisfied with the performance of the party… we
are not happy with the performance of our party.
“I am not a prophet of doom, neither am I a political prostitute.
Are you happy going to queue up for up to two to three hours? Are you happy
that electricity is not functioning well and people sleep in darkness?
“What we are saying is that majority of Nigerians are not happy
and we need to make them happy.”
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