APC Youth Solidarity Network Blames Muhammed Saidu-Etsu former national chairmanship contender, others for seeking Dr. Ganduje removal
By David Lawani, Abuja
The All Progressives Congress, APC, Youth Solidarity Network have blamed former national chairmanship contender, Mohammed Saidu-Etsu and others within the party for orchestrating the removal of the National Chairman of the party, Dr. Abdulahi Ganduje saying all the suits he file at the Federal High Court are petty and frivolous.
Addressing newsmen at Top Rank Hotel in Abuja, the Prince Danesi Momoh,
National Coordinator, APC Yotuh Solidarity Network noted that it has become crucial to make the public award that the hullabaloo surrounding the aborted sack of Dr. Ganduje from office was game plan of those who felt aggrieved but led by Mohammed Saidu-Etsu and his cohorts who meant nothing good for the party.
The group contend that the attempt to lie so as to forcefully overthrow the national chairman of the party will not work because since he, Dr. Ganduje came onboard he has been doing everything possible to ensure unity and peace reign in the party but those who lost in the contest for the national chairmanship who have regrouped to course disaffection in the pary will not succeed.
He said: ” Equally, frivolous and petty is the suit instituted by Mohammed Saidu-Etsu, a former contender for the post of National Chairman in the last APC Convention, at an Abuja High Court, seeking to compel the National Executive Council (NEC) of the APC to declare the appointment of Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje illegal. It’s simply childish to contest the outcome of an election you lost for over a year ago. Moreover, the NEC has all the powers including zoning and rezoning of party positions and elections being the highest organ of the party after National convention.
” What suddenly prompted Mr. Mohammed Saidu-Etsu to question the appointment of Abdullahi Umar Ganduje? Was he part of the team that sponsored the unholy insurrection against Ganduje in Kano? What does he hope to gain if the position of the National Chairman is declared vacant? Does he hope to just get it on a platter of gold? This is dishesrtening and as a youth body, we suspect a grand scheme to decimate our great party, weaken it ahead of next elections and target President Bola Ahmed Tinubu for a loss.
” Ladies and gentlemen, history does not lie and this is the time for Mr. President to rise up to the challenges and ensure that Ganduje is maintained as the National Chairman. A similar situation happened in 2013/2014 when some anit-party agents conspired and removed Alhaji Bamanga Tukur as the then National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
” We were brainwashed that, the only way to save of our party, is by mobilizing for the removal of the National Chairman, in order to avoid Zamfara treatment where the party won all elections, but our votes were later awarded to the opposition by the Supreme Court.
” As overzealous members and reputable youth organization within the party, we swung into action by mobilizing against our workaholic National Chairman, only to later realized that the people pushing us against Ganduje are enemies within the party, who are conniving with the opposition New Nigeria Peoples party to destabilize the APC and by extension the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
” Without mincing words, we are opposed to this charade and we call on all stakeholders and President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to do everything within his powers to end this rascality for the sake of our great party and the country at large.
” Despite the decisive rejection of the ill-fated suspension by the Ganduje ward executive and the discovery that those who appeared on the television and allegedly suspended the National Chairman are not members of the APC, talk more of being Exco. Yet, it gave some mischievous persons an avenue to vent their frustrations because some of the enemies within are complaining of lack of patronage by the Tinubu’s administration”, he stated.
The youth group however appealed to President Tinubu to ensure that Dr. Ganduje is not made to face the same fate that befall former Adams Oshiomhole who some people were not comfortable with but did everything through the use of his ward chairman to remove him from office.
” Our President Bola Ahmed Tinubu must not allow history to repeat itself as those behind the plot to remove Ganduje are nothing but the same anti-party elements within the APC, plotting to shatter the party ahead of the 2027 general elections.
We wish to state categorically that, we were misinformed to stand against the National Chairman of our party at a time, but we have seen the light and understood clearly, the antics of the enemies within our party.
” As we speak, some persons are in Abuja moving round with huge sums of money, mobilizing people to protest against the National Chairman, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. They are also sponsoring adverts in both the print and electronic media just to tarnish his image. These men are ready to cause disaffection and return back to their bases as some of them are not Abuja base. We call on the media and the general public to disregard any call for Ganduje’s removal as the party is truly in a safe hands.
” Don’t be surprised that in the next few days, you may see sponsored articles, adverts and protest against Ganduje by the same people wasting public funds in a fruitless journey of no result.
” We therefore, pass a resounding vote of confidence in the current leadership of our great party, Dr Abdullahi Umar Ganduje and his working committee members. Ganduje has steered the affairs of our great party in the right direction with a lot of innovations and policies that have ensured Internal democracy and equality within the ranks and file of our party.
” The successes recorded during the Party Primaries in Edo and Ondo State should gladden our hearts and give us hope that Nigeria shall once again be a great country where godfatherism and other clannish tendencies will soon be eradicated. It is rather unfortunate that even with the achievements recorded so far under Ganduje, some persons are bent on jeopardising his efforts and that of our great party in an attempt to attack President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.
” On our part, we shall be staging a solidarity protest to tell all naysayers that there’s no vacancy in APC National Secretariat and no matter what they do, Ganduje will complete his tenure and establish APC as the strongest party in Nigeria and beyond.
” Let it be on record that we were the first to protest against the National Chairman and we are saying we are sorry for been used against our party. We shall work with the National Chairman to move our party forward”, he added.
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