THE APC WILL SHOOT ITSELF IN THE LEG

  I remember that while APC was desperately recruiting corrupt and dubious fall-outs from the PDP as its strategy to get into power at all cost some of us who are not partisan but patriotic and only crave a positive change for our nation raised the alarm that APC was preparing to shoot itself in the leg.

  Rather than conform with using its governors in their governed states to prove that a real change was possible in Nigeria and limit itself to recruiting real progressives into its fold, it opened wide its gates for the incorporation of notorious and corrupt politicians fleeing from a long overdue justice and desperately seeking prominence in other parties, so much so that today as we talk, the APC in its quest to govern the nation at all cost has more adopted corrupt politicians in its fold than even the PDP from where most of these corrupt politicians emanated.

  Some people argue that in politics, some concessions and strategizing are necessary if a party is to win an election but experience has also shown us that the more a party goes out of its way to sign an agreement with the devil or sell its conscience to the devil, the evidently clear it becomes that the real positive change will never be possible. Although I do not personally like the leader of the APC, Chief Bola Ahmed Tinubu but at a time he appears to be surrounded in the party by many active and progressive persons whose contributions, especially at state levels spelt hope for our nation until the APC started incorporating the same persons who have been responsible for the catastrophic situation of our dear nation in the past decades of our independence.  

  There is no doubt that change is necessary in Nigeria and that the rulership of the PDP since the re-emergence of the 3^rd republic has been void of any tangible progress for our nation and our people, but if the change is going to be insignificant and not absolute as it appears with the prominent faces in the opposition party today then the tale of the devil you know becomes very salient, we cannot afford at this very complicated period of our history to risk jumping from fry pan to fire. The APC must prove to Nigerians that it is an alternative party, different from the corrupt government that has bedeviled our nations for close to two decades now and the only way to do this is to begin to scrutinize the caliber of persons they allow into the party especially to call the shots, otherwise the APC will end up shooting itself in the leg.