APC, ACN: Beware of PDP in the South West
Caveat emptor: The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), soon to morph into the All Progressives Congress (APC), must beware of the antics of the Peoples Democratic Party, its federal sponsors, as well as its Yoruba internal traitors.
Across the board, when compared with the eight years of stagnation, during which the PDP usurpers left nothing but ruins, the ACN appears to have done enough to merit stunning triumphs in future polls, the first of which comes in Ekiti and later Osun, both in 2014.
But with a do-nothing president desperate to run again in 2015, and even more desperate to gain a foothold in the South West, even after insulting the Yoruba through and through in his so far unfortunate tenure, it is time to be extremely vigilant – eternal vigilance, after all, is the price of liberty!
Aside from the desperate president are no less desperate Yoruba characters who, faced with sure and well-earned irrelevance, would do anything to stay relevant, even if that means conspiring with noxious external elements to kill the future of their own people.
Indeed, this has always happened, whenever our region is on the brink of a developmental breakthrough, as it is indeed now. Very early at independence, the sure-footed strides of the old Western Region was truncated by enemies without, conspiring with enemies within, as exemplified by the ‘Demo’ elements led by the Samuel Ladoke Akintola faction of the smashed Action Group (AG).
After the collapse of the Second Republic, the greatest victim was perhaps Lagos in the South West. With the strides of that state and the other states in the then LOOBO (Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Bendel and Ondo) states, the clear prime loser was the Lagos futurist metro rail project called Metroline, promptly scuttled by the succeeding military.
Such anti-Yoruba conspiracy is building up again. That is why the governments of the South West states must be careful and vigilant. If they are, there is a high chance that the forces of reaction and retrogression would be soundly defeated. But if they don’t, there are chances that the dreams of our people may yet be aborted (God forbid!), with disastrous consequences for the Nigerian polity.
The tell-tale of disturbing signs are already there. Just to scuttle the APC merger or prevent it from gathering suction in a naturally progressive territory, sundry plots are afoot, plots that are so comical if not that they are also so tragic.
In one corner, Dr. Frederick Fasehun, a leader of the Odua People’s Congress (OPC), is insulting the memory of Chief Obafemi Awolowo by purporting to resuscitate the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN), thus trying to associate Awo’s name with cant and deceit, not to talk of greed for dirty lucre. By that, he is hoping to gather his own peculiar ‘progressives’ to further help a clueless and graceless Jonathan to deliberately under-develop our land by his eternally fumbling and shamabolic presidency.
In another corner, Chief Olu Falae, once-upon-a-time relevant politician, is so scared of irrelevance that he has turned hyper-active, essaying a strange merger of his own, to be named after another defunct party, the Social Democratic Party (SDP), the party on which platform Basorun Moshood Abiola won the presidency. But Chief Falae knows he has absolutely no electoral value, even in his immediate community in Ondo State! So, how could he spearhead any vibrant merger?
Then further afield on the canvass of the desperado are the Afenifere grandees showcasing their own brand new, mint-fresh progressive, Iyiola Omisore! It doesn’t get more absurd! With their new-found angel (sorry, cash machine) the men of yore have abandoned their pristine integrity for a sinister mess of pottage, happily sacrificing the future wellbeing of their children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, against the Afenifere ethos they claim to franchise!
All these are, of course, no accident. They could not have been otherwise, for between the PDP Southwest era and now, the difference is refreshingly clear!
That is why the South West governors and their party must continue to aggressively showcase the glorious strides they have been making to make life better for our people, work more on South West economic integration and prove that it is the era of development, not that of empty politics and deceit.
They must do more: they must expose these demagogues for what they are and continue to mobilise the people for development. Also, they should continue to work hard to justify the people’s confidence.
The coming elections are make or break – make and secure our people’s future but break the back of the traitors. But to achieve this noble goal, the APC-ACN must rip apart the antics of the PDP, the local collaborators for dirty lucre and their evil external sponsors.
Remember, eternal vigilance is the price of liberty!
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