DESPITE its best efforts to keep up appearances, the All Progressives Congress (APC) is in far worse shape than its leaders publicly acknowledge.
Party leaders fear that it will take them time to get over the ripple effects of the sack of the Adams Oshiomhole-led National Working Committee , for too many things were done before and during the sack that are certain to create their own aftershocks.
First, he is an interested party in the primary, being a friend of one of the contestants, Governor Rotimi Akeredolu. Could their principles and ideology not prick their consciences? The party of course does not represent everything dy has a price which he is more than willing to pay, and has perfected the posture of a politician not averse to electoral violence.
Perhaps not. However, they are at liberty to throw in their lot with Mr Akeredolu and to do everything to engineer his victory, regardless of oposition. A party with far more principles and vision than the APC would have ensured a level playing field for the contestants, including direct primaries in a state that has become combustive because of the disappointment with the performance of the governor.
But neither the splits nor the tendencies were inevitable. It was okay to have a group of politicians coming together to snatch power from the clumsy hands of predecessors; but once that objective was achieved, the next task was to forge a common identity from the party’s disparate cultural backgrounds and ideologies.
Despite the pretence and denial, however, the factions exist. But instead of fostering unity, the dominant thinking in the party is to obliterate the other arms in favour of one as a way of ensuring the party’s survival. On the surface, that is a noble and even desirable goal. If party leaders had focused on hammering a common denominator out of these attributes, the effort would probably have produced a stronger, less fractious, more inspired and truly cohesive party.
It is incontrovertible that the ascendant group in the party today is willing to employ the most divisive and most corrosive method to demolish its opposition. The APC has no justification to do what it has done in Ondo, particularly showing its hands too early, and giving the impression that other contestants were just making up the numbers.
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