Politics
APC Destroying Nigerian Democracy – Yoruba Group
Network of Yoruba Alliance (NEYA), a pan-Yoruba advocacy group, has called on the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) to stop the ongoing political witch-hunting among its ranks but rather devote quality time to solving the myriad of problems confronting Nigerians.
This is even as the group said that the ruling party is abusing the nation’s democratic tenets by virtue of its actions, especially against perceived opposition.
The group, in a statement issued in Lagos at the weekend, condemned the actions leading to the ongoing gale of defections in APC, warning that such development would have grave consequences on the citizenry if allowed to continue.
The group was of the opinion that a people-oriented Federal Government should work together in harmony, no matter individual interests, for the common good of the generality of Nigerians.
NEYA, therefore, warned that the APC, which presented itself as a political party coming to liberate the masses from the track of perdition might sink into more fatal derailment if conscious steps were not taken to accommodate the rising number of defections to other parties by key figures in the party hierarchy.
Sunday Akogun, spokesperson of NEYA, condemned in strong terms the ongoing attacks on the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, and other notable lawmakers in both the upper and lower chambers of the National Assembly and the wanton use of the national security institutions to carry out individualistic assignments at the expense of national interests.
He said: “Nigerian political topography is being deliberately abused consistently by gruesome daylight robbery on the tenets of democracy by the ruling political party, the All Progressive Congress.
“In an attempt to cover up underperformance of this administration, the APC has resulted to intimidating, harassing and coercing members of the party that dare challenge the party. This is tantamount to undermining the kernel of democracy (internal democracy) without which democratic sustainability can flourish.”
The group asserted that allegations and persecutions against the Senate President were seemingly political gimmicks orchestrated not only to frustrate but to destroy him politically by the APC leadership and benefactors.
“He who must come to equity must come with clean hands. For instance, since the police claim that links Senator Bukola Saraki to the robbery in Offa, Kwara State was debunked by the robbers then, the police must be courageous enough to prosecute the robbers.”
Anonymous
August 8, 2018 at 8:31 am
It is not APC but Yoruba destroying the democracy of the nation
Anonymous
August 7, 2018 at 1:42 pm
They should call Tinubu and his students home and speak sense into their heads.
Anonymous
August 7, 2018 at 1:31 pm
Yoruba is equally destroying democracy in Nigeria
Anonymous
August 7, 2018 at 11:35 am
This what father thought his child and father trained his child to be greater than him the father. So PLS trained APC and APC is perfecting it Weller
Anonymous
August 7, 2018 at 11:14 am
This is simply military rule
Anonymous
August 7, 2018 at 11:03 am
you people are the problem we have in Nigeria
Anonymous
August 7, 2018 at 10:28 am
Anonymous
August 7, 2018 at 9:38 am
How long shall this Fulani terrorist government last I told them that Nigeria has expired and can only get worse and must be abolished now before its too late