THE ALL PROGRESSIVE CONGRESS (APC) IS ANOTHER POLITICAL DECEPTION IN NIGERIA

Few days ago, I perused the list of the politicians that were named to draft the manifestos and the official constitution of the recently formed political party in Nigeria that is known as the All Progressive Congress (APC) which had not yet been registered by the INEC and which was also a political merger between the already existing four smaller political parties (ACN, CPC, ANPP and a faction of APGA) that had no national spread unlike the present ruling party, the People Democratic Party (PDP) that has controlled the national government of Nigeria since 1999.

A general survey of the past political life of few of these men who are currently in the leadership of this young political organ speak volumes. I will put my satellite on Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Tom Ikimi and Audu Ogbeh to reveal some of the most important facts that many Nigerians need to know about this new party that is interested in winning at the federal level in 2015. Many of the leaders of this newly formed APC were once the pioneer members and leaders of the PDP like Audu Ogbeh who was the Chairman of the PDP at one time. Mr Tom Ikimi was a man that served one of the most corrupt and repressive military governments in Nigeria under the late General Sanni Abacha as the nation's foreign minister. Tom Ikimi travelled all over the world wasting the tax payers' money, promoting and defending all the actions of the Abacha's government including the hanging of Ken Saro Wiwa, the environment advocate and the annulment of the June 12, 1993 presidential election in Nigeria. Tom Ikimi also served at one time as the chairman of the PDP in his home state of Edo.

Bola Ahmed Tinubu entered the office of the governor of Lagos State of Nigeria with a very serious allegation of certificate forgery and discrepancies in the information that he provided to the INEC. Bola Ahmed Tinubu still has an unresolved case of official corruption in office hanging on his head from the EFCC when he presided over the affairs of the government of Lagos State of Nigeria. These men are all political opportunists without any sound principle, integrity or exemplary performance in the political offices that that held in the past in Nigeria. 

The APC in my own personal judgement is simply a bunch of politicians that are seeking national prominence, who are tired of the local, ethnic and regional politics plus its limitations and are now pursuing their own political ambitions or agendas with one primary desire and purpose of wrestling the political power from the ruling PDP. Have these four political parties (ACN, ANPP, CPC, APGA) turned their respective states or regions that they presently control since 1999 or after 1999 into paradises on earth for those Nigerians who are living in that part of Nigeria? Charity truly must begin at home.