OPINION: APC Senators Are betrayals, By Joe Igbokwe
I was shocked to the marrows when I heard
that some APC Senators asked the National
Working Committee of the Party led by the
National Chairman of the Party Chief Odigie
Oyegun to prevail on President Buhari to
drop all charges against Bukola Saraki at
the Code of Conduct corruption trial before
they stop sabotaging the presidency. Words
failed me when it dawned on me that this
potentially dangerous demand is coming
from some APC Senators who are supposed
to be the agents of change we promised
Nigerians while seeking their mandate in
2015.
I reflected on the event of the past 24years
from 1993 when we elected Chief MKO
Abiola to bring hope to Nigerians and how
he was crushed and decimated by demonic
and satanic forces after five years struggle
to defend and sustain the mandate. Time
and space will not permit me to recall the
quantum of energies expended to defend the
mandate for five years, the wars, on the
streets, the casualties including MKO
Abiola and the late wife Kudirat Abiola,and
many others, the damage to the national
project, the devastation of our economy, the
balkanization of the political entity called
Nigeria, the alienation by the international
community making Nigeria a pariah nation,
and the ethnic division it visited on Nigeria.
After killing chief Abiola in July 7 1998, the
same satanic and demonic forces still bent
on decimating Nigeria further decided to
foist PDP and retired General Obasanjo on
Nigerians. In sixteen years, from 1999 to
2015 the same forces wasted huge
resources running into hundreds of billions
of dollars earned in times of oil boom. The
unconscionable looters and unrepentant
thieves diverted and stashed away these
huge resources into private pockets. These
funds have been traced to private accounts
both at home and abroad, traced to real
estates both in Nigeria and abroad, and
traced to farms and some buried
underground. The rest is now history.
Igbokwe is the All Progressives Congress, APC Publicity Secretary in Lagos state
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