Five Governors are secretly making subterranean moves to dump the All progressive Congress (APC) for the Labour Party on May 1, Workers Day, 2014, as a result heavy handedness of party leadership.
Our sources, who craved anonymity, disclosed that Governors Okorocha,
Amosun, Amaechi, Kwankwanso and Oshiomhole are among the first batch of
decampers which would swell up the rank of Labour Party and make the
party a major opposition party in Nigeria, reducing the iron-clad
influence of Tinubu. El-Rufai, Tambuwal, Ribadu, Fashola, even Shekarau
are said to prefer the Labour Party option.
"This will surely
burst the bubble off Tinubu who now dictates to all the governors,
legislators and aspirants in APC without regard for the principles of
democracy or consensus", a source who would not be named said. "Tinubu
is now like a god of APC and it is unacceptable. He almost always
unilaterally dictates all policy and decisions of the APC from his
Bourdillion Palace. This must be resisted, whether you call it betrayal,
instability,or what have you. It is politics and in politics interests
govern!", a political aide to one of the southern governors who craved
anonymity said.
It is perceived that the aggrieved governors
believe that their individual ambitions are fatally threatened within
the APC, especially with the disturbing influx of strange characters
from the old brigade of PDP, people with competing and insatiable
political ambitions. Politicians from the CPC and ANPP are somewhat
confused on what remedial steps to take after they realize lately the
handwriting on the wall and perceived that they may have been used to
achieve a self-serving ambition of the mystery Tinubu.
They
reckon that their merged parties are legally dead, and it shameful to
return to the PDP. Shekarau is said to have first moved this position
but because he was probably misunderstood and apparently victimized for
that by the taking of the Kano state structure from him by the APC, he
was left with the option of migrating to the PDP. It is believed that he
would return if this plan sail through.
In this Labour Party
plot, it is believed that Adams Oshiomhole is to be presented as
Presidential Candidate because of his general acceptability to north and
south and also because he's from the south-south where the President is
from. By the permutation, either El-Rufai, Lamido or Tambuwal would be
Vice Presidential candidate while Fashola would be prepared to lead the
Senate and Okorocha the House of Representatives and Buhari, if he moves
in, would be leader of the party." a reliable source disclosed.
It is also rumoured that Buhari may lead the next batch of other APC
decampees to Labour Party immediately after the APC Primaries, depending
on the outcome. This plan was allegedly hatched in Benin during the
smokescreen Youth Carnival where Fashola came to endorse Oshiomhole in
Benin, whch seriously offended Tinubu.
According to another
source in Sokoto, the main reason for the reexodus and realignment of
forces into the Labour Party is "to extricate the true progressives from
the current outlook of the APC which is now perceived among Nigerians
as the Old PDP with the deregulated influx of everyone in the old PDP
that ruined Nigeria".
It is however also believed that this
plan is a ploy to preserve the political ambition of the new breeds like
Oshiomhole, El-Rufai, Lamido and Tambuwal from political emasculation
and annihilation by the schemings of the Tinubu Cabal which many believe
is only using unsuspecting governors and legislators to build his APC
and corner power for himself or his stooges. -
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