A member of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Campaign Council for Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Jesutega Onokpasa has lamented the sharp division, ‘pull-him-down syndrome’ and bad blood going on in the ruling party.
The APC chieftain warned that it is time for the alleged gang-up against those who played key roles in the emergence of President Tinubu to stop.
Onokpasa, a staunch supporter of President Tinubu, claimed that certain individuals in the party and within Tinubu’s government are not relenting in their plot against a former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello and his Kaduna State counterpart, Malam Nasir el-Rufai.
He warned some Tinubu’s appointees, whom he said are using the instrumentality of power to torment Bello and El-Rufai to desist, as the contributions and support of the former governors to the victory of the party are unquantifiable.
Lamenting in a video clip about the current ordeals of the national chairman of the APC, Abdullahi Ganduje and his family members, Onokpasa said the former Kano State governor is a victim of political vendetta, noting that it is bad that members of the same political party could be tearing themselves up to the advantage of the opposition.
He took a swipe at the leadership of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, on its approach against Bello and for allegedly playing double standards on his case, describing the anti-graft agency as the most corrupt institution in the country.
Addressing members and supporters of the APC in the video clip, the legal guru said, “Seriously, what do we think we are doing to ourselves in this party? I think we all have to sit back and start reasoning deeply, because right now, we are actually misbehaving. We are tearing ourselves apart while those in the opposition are regrouping against us. “So, we should all gang up against Bello? We should all gang up against el-Rufai? The other day, Sam was writing an article ‘Like Father, Like Fraud’. I mean, you will attack the father and attack the son? Isn’t that the rubbish that Atiku Abubakar was doing the other day? Attacking our president’s children. He will attack the father and attack the children?
“What is Sam’s contribution to Asiwaju becoming president? Nothing! What is El-Rufai’s contribution? Unquantifiable. I was there. What is Bello’s contribution? Unquantifiable. I was there. Some people just feel because they have differences with people, they will use the instrumentality of power to attack party members.
“We are falling apart like this. We won with less than 40 percent of the votes. We won by the grace of God because it is the will of God for Asiwaju Tinubu to become our president and that is how we won. Then as we are, the next thing we will start doing is to start ganging up against one another in our party. That he (Bello) will pass through the backdoor? To do what? They (EFCC) just want to collect money from him. It is not fighting any corruption. You think it is everybody you can shake down? Come and shake me down,” he dared the commission.
He insisted that Bello and El-Rufai do not deserve the persecution they are currently experiencing, warning that the APC might fall apart if persecution and pulling down of members are not checked.
