By Emeka Nze Abuja
President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki, has that said contrary to insinuations, he was a full member of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and remained there “body and spirit.” Saraki said at the News Agency of Nigeria Forum in Abuja that the speculations were part of the mischievous activities against him and urged the public to discountenance them. He said those spreading such information were doing so as propaganda for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Saraki, however, blamed the development on inactivity in the APC, saying that the party’s leadership had failed to focus it properly.
He, therefore, charged the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the party to wake up to its responsibility as it had remained without activities for too long. Th e president of the Senate said the docility in the party was giving room for unfounded allegations against some of its members. According to him, if the party had organised regular NEC meetings and other caucus meetings, there would have been enough activities to determine who the true members are. “I think there is no APC member that will tell you he is happy with the state of aff airs of the party; there is a lot of work that we need to do. “Th e party that hasn’t met for a long time, it’s beyond comprehension and I think that we should all quickly put that in order and start to get NEC, caucus and others going.
We need to start early to get the drive in the party back. “Luckily, in spite of the lack of meetings here and there, if you go round the 36 states, it is in just few states, not many states, where you may see internal crisis. “It’s not that the party, at the grassroots level, had a lot of crisis here and there; it’s just for the administrative aspect and the national executive to provide leadership.” Saraki also said if there had been meetings of the party, his detractors would have seen how actively involved he was in the party “and will not have any room to spread such lies.” “Th ey are just using that to do propaganda for PDP. Where are they seeing that I am not in the party in spirit? Where is the spirit they are judging from, where are they seeing the spirit?
