BETWEEN APC AND PDP

Those who read James Hardly Chase’s My Laugh Comes Last will quite agree that the APC’s blunder has become PDP’s last laugh.

One of the problems confronting many people today is that they never learn from history. In 2011 when the PDP zoned the position of the Speaker of the House of Representative to the South-West, the then ACN (now merged with APC) mobilized its members in the house to revolt against the PDP’s decision by supporting Hon. Aminu Tambuwal (now Governor of Sokoto State) against the PDP’s anointed woman politician from the South West to become the Speaker of the house against the decision of the PDP. Today, Tambuwal is no longer in PDP but in APC. 

With the Broom Revolution of 28th March 2015 that sent PDP and GEJ packing from the seat of power, the battle for superiority in APC was shifted to the National Assembly. Senator Bukola Saraki, the son and successor of Saraki Oloye, the late Strong Man of Kwara politics, having seen the hand writing on the wall that he was not wanted by the leadership of the APC as the President of 8th National Assembly reached out to the Senators in the PDP. Within a tickle of an eye, Bukola Saraki had his way and became the President of the Senate having conceding the position of the Senate Vice-presidency to the PDP where he formerly belonged .

 I am of the view that it was the APC that shot itself in the leg because if the APC had left the race open to all its members in Senate, there was no way Saraki would have reached out to the PDP to cut a deal.All the key positions that APC are now agitating for would surely have being theirs. The APC has refused to learn a lesson from the coup it plotted to install Tambuwal as Speaker some years back. The APC underrated Saraki forgotten that he was one of those that pulled the rug off the feet of GEJ.

 It was the same man that revolted against his father when the old man insisted his sister must succeed the young man as Governor of Kwara and the rest is now history. The APC must learn to put its house in order if it is to maintain its recent overwhelming victory as failure to do so may mark the beginning of its waterloo as the PDP is already mobilizing towards regaining power in 2019. A word is enough for the wise..