The South West Zone of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has dismissed the recent post-national conference summit where some Yoruba leaders endorsed President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term ambition as an assemblage of strange bedfellows lacking the political aura to sell the candidacy of the President to reasonable people in the zone.
According to the South-West APC Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Ayo Afolabi, those who brand themselves as Yoruba leaders at the summit were in the minority, necessitating their holding a conference that was not open to the public. The APC also said the caliber of people promoting the Jonathan reelection in the zone has shown how unpopular the president is in the South West.
“Yoruba people cannot be fooled knowing that some of those who dubbed President Jonathan a bribe giver when an allegation of $50,000 ‘bribe’ was made by the Save Nigeria Group are the ones now championing Jonathan’s candidacy.
“Jonathan’s candidacy is unsellable because when our members joined all Nigerians to protest and forced the pronouncement of Dr. Jonathan as the Acting President in 2010, we were not just fighting against the ‘cabal,’ we were sending a strong message that we are tired of the imperial and high-handed governance culture of the PDP-led federal government.”
The party recalled how Nigerians risked their lives in protest for him and many foremost citizens, like Nobel Laureate, Prof. Wole Soyinka, risking their reputations to back him for a change that the country truly deserved.
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