The National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP) Alhaji Abdulkadir Abdulsalam, has said that the the govering All Progressives Congress (APC) will soon be killed by the self-supremacy of the President Muhammadu Buhari, adivising that the President should go back to his political party, to guide him on some critical decisions, especially on formation of his cabinet
Abdulsalam said the President is currently giving the impression that he is bigger, greater, wiser and more knowledgeable than his political party, saying, such Buhari’s “sense of self-supremacy is the one that will kill APC.”
The LP chairman said this in Abuja yesterday, in an interview with newsmen, that because the President Buhari has to be there for four years, his actions and inactions must be carefully study and corrected such that that it will not portent danger for the country.
When asked to comment on the delaying in cabinet formation by the president, Abdulsalam said: “I don’t know the versatility of Buhari in reaching out to people all over the country because he was a minister, governor, head of state, general and now a President. If all these background and pedigree he has no much people to rely upon at the blink of an eye to produce 30 people to occupy sensitive and prominent people, then there is problem ahead.
“I will advise the President to go back to his political party,
rejuvenate the party, bring their heads together and then he must have absolute confidence in his political party to guide him, to enable him to do what he should do for Nigeria. The way I’m seeing it now, Buhari has more confidence in his CPC people than the totality of APC.
“What I’m saying is that Buhari should evolve a confidence in the totality of APC people, relate and interact with them, get their advice and workout policies with them because as at now, no party policy is working in APC. Nothing will work. This old man- Lai Muhammed cannot even defend the total failure of APC; he is no longer vibrant. He is at a loss.
“The President is giving the impression that he is bigger, greater, wiser and more knowledgeable than his political party. That is why Buhari’s sense of self-supremacy is the one that will kill APC and it is dangerous for Nigeria because they must be there for four years. He should go back to the drawing board with his political party.”
Commenting on the opposition role the People Democratic Party (PDP) is playing, Abdulsalam noted that both PDP and APC are one and the same, saying PDP for now does not have capacity to become an opposition party when compared with the Labour Party
He said: “The PDP is not an opposition party. They are learning to play the role of an opposition and they have not been able to get it and they can’t get because it is just like saying the King, the Queen should come and be in opposition, it will not work. APC is an off-shot of the PDP. PDP now and APC are one and the same thing.
“So PDP cannot sufficiently say it is an opposition party. It is them who are still struggling to call themselves an opposition party. They are asserting it and Nigerians are not accepting them as an opposition party because they have failed, they have shrink and cannot raise their heads again.”
