Stop playing God, APC youth group tells Tinubu

Scores of protesting youth apparently loyal to the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, Tuesday besieged the national secretariat of the party in Abuja,

protesting what they said was an attempt by a former governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, to enthrone himself as the “go” of APC.

The youth group asked the former governor to limit his political empire to the South-west region “because Nigeria is bigger than a region or Lagos state.”.

The however, called on Tinubu “to either leave the party or curtail his greed.” Oyegun, Tinubu and Buhari Addressing national coordinator of APC Youth Democratic Frontiers (APCYDF), Salaudeen Lukman, said Tinubu, “undermined the position of Mr. President by incessantly sponsoring the spurious ridicule of his anti-corruption fight.

 Each time fake stories of impropriety is written about these appointees, paid critics and activists on hire are always quick to accuse President Buhari of fighting corruption while surrounding himself with corrupt people but we all know this is far from the truth.

What we learnt is that Tinubu is attacking these aides of Mr. President because he believes he should have been the one who makes appointments into those positions as opposed to what happened when Mr. President acted in national interest and cohesion to appoint tested and trusted individuals”.

The group while expressing support for Chief Oyegun led leadership of the APC, we can no longer fold our arms while we watch and allow party feudal lords to expropriate our party’s ethics simply on regional nomenclature aimed at usurping party’s national interest.

It should be stated categorically that we are no longer comfortable with the whims and caprices of an orchestrated Jagaban resident in Bourdilion, Lagos and directed at misdirecting our progressives party simply to achieve egocentric empirical relevance.

Let us state on a sad note that this overbearing tendency on the part of Tinubu is not limited to the federal level alone, he meddles in the affairs of even states that are not his home states.”