Baraje to Buhari: Save APC from Meeting Its Waterloo like PDP

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Baraje to Buhari:  Save  APC from Meeting Its Waterloo like PDP

A chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Alhaji Abubakar Kawu Baraje, today advised President Muhammadu Buhari to guide against destroyers in the party in order not to allow the ruling party fall victim of what led to the downfall of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Baraje also counseled the president to 'shine his eyes' and save the party from the hands of a few people who think they are more important than every other member of the party.

Speaking with journalists in Ilorin, the Kwara State capital, yesterday on the state of the nation, Baraje lamented that factors that led to the factionalisation of the PDP and its eventual collapse were gradually creeping into APC.

He noted that impunity, lawlessness and divisive tendencies which led to the downfall of the PDP now reign supreme in the APC.

The former PDP chieftain said the aforementioned vices were being promoted by a few self-centred leaders of the APC, and admonished Buhari to start playing politics so that the APC would not suffer the PDP's fate.

The APC chieftain expressed reservation over the ways and manners the ruling party is being run, noting that this has resulted in APC losing in many of the states where rerun elections had taken place.

He warned that if care was not taken, the "PDP may take over the control of the two chambers of the National Assembly."

Baraje added that: "There are many distractions. President Buhari's government has brighter idea on how to turn around the fortune of Nigeria, but a lot of things went wrong before APC came in as the ruling party.

"Most of the distractions were created by APC itself. For instance, the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, who heads an important arm of government is not getting the necessary support from the party because a few people think they are more important than others.


"What led to the factionalisation of PDP is gradually creeping into APC; the dragon of impunity is creeping into the party. 

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