The National Coordinator, South-East APC Presidency Project 2023, Dr. Chinedu Jideofo-Ogbuagu, has said that one of the agendas of the project is to begin the total sanitation of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to rid it of mischievous and non-progressive elements derailing the progress of the nation.
Ogbuagu noted that these non-progressive elements in the party are either members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, or those without any allegiance to the party but we’re planted within the APC to ensure that the objectives and policies of the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration does not reflect the manifesto of the party.
He accused PDP of sending mercenaries who are occupying sensitive positions in the present administration to destroy the party and derail the progressive movement of governance in the country.
Ogbuagu who was reacting to a statement issued by PDP national publicity secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan wherein he called on “a few credible individuals still trapped in the APC to immediately leave that pirate ship before it is too late,” said he disagreed with the call, adding that the mischievous and predatory elements sabotaging the party manifesto would be flushed out soon.
According to him, “We beg to differ from the PDP on this, as we disagree with them on many of their other jaundiced views. Contrary to the false picture they have painted, the predatory elements in the President Buhari administration are not APC.
“They are persons known or unknown to President Buhari who are either PDP or have no known party allegiance. Their mission in the administration is simply to pillage and vicariously give APC a bad name. They are mercenaries in the administration – soldiers of fortune committing atrocities outside APC’s progressive manifesto and ethos.
“What APC should do and must do with President of Nigeria of South-East extraction on APC platform from 29th May 2023, would be to sanitize the party by expelling the sort of PDP elements and other mercenaries who from 2015 to date have posed as APC members or sympathizers just to partake in a supposed APC-controlled Federal Government.
“We say ‘supposed’ because APC cannot be said to exert any influence in Government policies and actions that our detractors mischievously credit to APC.
“That is what Dr. Salihu Lukman, Director General of the Progressive Governors’ Forum, alluded to when he said that some so-called APC leaders behaved like ‘criminal bandits’.”
“A true progressive does not shy away from the truth, even if opportunistic anti-people party like the PDP would quickly take advantage of our sincerity and desire to change-the-change in-house.
“PDP is not a change agent and should not attempt to deceive Nigerians that it can ever be one; unless it is to change from bad to worst.
“APC has a manifesto (a very fine one at that) and PDP should apologize to Nigerians for detailing its mercenaries in the Buhari administration – including Ministers, Permanent Secretaries, Agency CEOs, Board Chairmen, Directors, Security and Intelligence Chiefs – to ensure that policies, programmes, projects and practices of the Buhari administration are not reflective of the APC manifesto.
“The agenda of South-East APC Presidency Project 2023 is also to religiously implement APC manifesto using only true APC members as government functionaries. APC has clear progressive ideology and that would manifest in the lives of all Nigerians with Nigeria’s President of South-East extraction from 29th May 2023.
“Contrary to PDP mischief, it is the few progressive persons still in PDP (like Governor Dave Umahi of Ebonyi State, Governor Nyesom Nwike of Rivers State, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, and Kola Ologbondiyan himself) who should abandon that ship of notorious pirates and roguish characters for the progressive train of our great party, the APC.
“Soon, very soon, APC-controlled Federal Government will not have any PDP or non-APC members anywhere near our corridor of power. The sanitization should start in the remaining lap of the Buhari administration but its full implementation would be guaranteed with President of South-East extraction on APC platform from 29th May 2023.”
