Kaduna APC crisis deepens as another chieftain resigns ahead of 2019
- The internal crisis rocking All Progressives Congress (APC) in Kaduna state seems not to be ending soon
- Influential party chieftains are leaving the party in droves as lack of cohesion seems to be the order of the day
- The latest chieftain of the party to leave is a founding member and revered stakeholder in the APC, Alhaji Lawal Adamu Usman
More key members are dumping the APC in Kaduna state over what they described as high handedness by party’s managers in the state.
The latest chieftain of the party to leave is a founding member, Alhaji Lawal Adamu Usman, popularly known as ‘Mr LA,’ who has tendered his resignation.
His resignation is coming few days after a former Kaduna gubernatorial aspirant of the party, Isa Ashiru Kudan, dumped the ruling party for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state.
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Alhaji Usman said he dumped the APC for “the indiscriminate persecutions of party members with the aim of restricting the space for their aspirations,” as well as his suspension from the party alongside other chieftains.
In a resignation letter addressed to the APC chairman of Ungwan Dosa ward in Kaduna north local government, Alhaji Usman said resigning from APC was the only principled decision that can be made in the circumstances of the many crises rocking the party in the state.
Copied in the letter were Governor El-Rufai, national chairman of APC, Comrade Adams Oshiomhole, leader of the party, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and President Muhammadu Buhari.
The letter read in parts: “It is with regret that I write to inform you that I have decided to resign my membership of the All Progressives Congress as from today. As you know, I have been a member of the APC since its inception four years ago.
“I was one of its original founders back in 2014. I have, since that time, deployed ample energy, precious time and enormous resources towards the growth of the party and its eventual victories at state and federal levels.
“But, here, we are in 2018, just three short years after the APC’s electoral high point, and everything has gone belly up in Kaduna state. A party that was once composed of committed comrades and loyal friends – united in the struggle for change, fairness, justice and national progress – has now turned into a party at war with itself.
“Bitter recriminations, acrimonious rancour and false accusations have been bandied about leading to unfair and unjustifiable persecution of loyal members by a handful of favoured government cronies. The atmosphere inside the party has today turned ugly and toxic.
“A rigorous and critical analysis of the party’s internal structures and culture, of key tactical decisions, and of the party’s overall political orientation would prove that the cracks had appeared soon after the inauguration of the Malam Nasir El-Rufai’s administration when collective responsibility was jettisoned in parochial individual ego massage."
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Meanwhile, the chairman, Senate committee on agriculture, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, on Thursday, June 28, described President Muhammadu Buhari and Comrade Adams Oshiomhole as good brands for the APC.
Abdullahi, the senator representing Nasarawa West senatorial district in the National Assembly, stated this in a goodwill message to the duo after the successful national convention of the ruling party.
However, he admitted that the task before the new national chairman of the APC was great, but surmountable, assuring party members and leaders that the pedigrees of the one-time president of the Nigeria Labour Congress and former governor of Edo state have prepared him to make a success of his assignment.
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