A faction of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) known as the Reformed All Progressives Congress (rAPC) emerged on Wednesday in Abuja with Engr. Buba Galadima as Chairman.
Galadima, at a press conference along with Alhaji Abubakar Baraje and other newly appointed executives of rAPC, justified the emergence of the political group, lamenting that all efforts to have the ruling party listen to them fell on deaf ears.
Galadima said the APC has in the last three years performed poorly and shamefully, thereby leaving a monumental disaster worse than the government it replaced.
“I stand here before you as the Chairman of the reformed APC to remind you that preparatory to 2015, the nPDP merged with APC to wrestle power, but the content of that agreement were breached.
“The APC in the last three years has performed poorly and refused to sustain its core values.
“The APC government was a monumental disaster even worse than the government it replaced,” he said.
The rAPC criticised the just concluded national congress of the APC, predicting that protracted legal crisis will trail the outcome.
“The APC conducted the worst national congress so far and it is likely that the outcome of judicial decision on the Congress would further lead to protracted crisis.
“There were crisis in four states. The National Congress Committee Chairman and Governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Abubakar Badaru declared 18 seats unopposed contrary to the Constitution of APC.”
Meanwhile, the National Spokesman of the APC, Bolaji Abdullahi, said the National Working Committee of the party will speak again on the next steps for the APC.
However, he said the level of reaction will depend on the fullness of details it will receive on the matter.
He said: “We have report of a group of who have purportedly described themselves as a faction of our party.
“We will be able to give our reaction as soon as we get the full details and have the opportunity to review it.”
