The ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has said that President Bola Tinubu and the party were preoccupied with the important business of governance and do not have idle time to meddle in the internal affairs of opposition parties that were already badly broken by their own failures and internal contradictions.
APC national publicity secretary, Felix Morka, said this while responding to a former governor of Sokoto State, Aminu Tambuwal, who accused Tinubu and the ruling party of destabilising the opposition.
Tambuwal, who spoke on Friday when he was featured on Channels Television’s ‘Politics Today’, claimed that APC and Tinubu have intentionally plotted the fall of the opposition parties in the country.
“When you look at what is happening in various political parties in Nigeria today — you don’t need to be told, no matter the amount of denial by whoever, including President Bola Tinubu, that they are not involved in destabilization efforts of opposition parties. It is incorrect,” Tambuwal said on the current affairs show.
“I am not accusing them. I am saying they are involved in efforts aimed at destabilisation of opposition parties,” he stated, doubling down on his claims.
But, in a reactionary statement on Sunday night, Morka said opposition leaders remained in denial while their parties drift, rudderless at sea, as their members peel away in droves.
He said the opposition’s attempt at building a coalition remained a figment that is not coalescing due to the hostile takeover of the African Democratic Congress (ADC) that is now unraveling in crippling dimensions, and the competing selfishness, desperation and arrogance of its leaders.
“Alhaji Aminu Waziri Tambuwal, a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, and former Governor of Sokoto state just could not resist the draw to jump on the inglorious bandwagon of kindred opposition figures whose warped pastime is hurling foul allegations against President Bola Ahmed Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC).
“In a recently televised interview, Tambuwal accused President Tinubu and APC of plotting the destabilization of opposition parties in the country, and bragged about defeating the President and the APC in the next general election. Like his garrulous opposition cohort, Tambuwal offered no substantiation of his bogus claims.
“By their inert and lackluster engagement, it is now clear to Nigerians that the present crop of opposition leaders have lost focus, assuming they ever had any, aside from their compulsive and obsessive crave for power and patronage that feed their huge ego and greed. Opposition politics is not simply about membership of a political party different from the ruling party.
“It is not just about the freedom to zap in and out of political parties based on purely selfish political calculations. It is also not about the freedom to bandy false narratives, peddle lies and engage in smear campaigns designed to sow discord and mislead the public. Opposition politics is certainly not also about weaponizing grudge disguised as opposition critiques,” Morka added.
