Emmanuel Ikechukwu
Another twist has emerged about the crisis in the national assembly. This time around the power brokers are at each others throat as a Chieftain of the All Progressive Congress, Chief Bisi Akande cries of Northern conspiracy against the Yoruba nation.
Refuting the allegation, the National Publicity Secretary of ACF, Alhaji Muhammadu Ibrahim, yesterday described the statements as disappointing, reckless and unbecoming of an elder statesman of Akande’s status.
In a statement, Ibrahim said “the crisis rocking the ruling APC over the election of the National Assembly’s presiding officers and the composition of principal officers is of concern not only to the ruling party but all Nigerians.
“It is sad that an elder statesman in the person of Chief Akande who worked tirelessly with other Nigerians to form APC which subsequently won the 2015 elections at the federal level and many states, can now say that the crisis in the National Assembly is a conspiracy of the North against the Yoruba, this is most disturbing.”
The ACF spokesman wondered why the North, which he claims comprises of more than 230 out of 250 tribes in the country, would single out only one of the tribes, the Yoruba, to conspire against it.
“ACF considers such statement as uncharitable and a deviation from the main agenda of Change which Nigerians voted for. The era of tribal and religious politics or inciting one tribe against the other has no place in our present political focus”.
He appealed to elders and all Nigerians to show decorum and civility in their utterances, as all hands should now be on deck to move the nation forward.
The Group (ACF), advocated that the crisis in the National Assembly should be addressed through the party’s internal mechanism of resolving conflicts and not through reckless and unguarded statements by elders that are supposed to be reservoirs of wisdom.
