The North Central All Progressive Congress, APC Discussion board, has condemned the endorsement of the embattled nationwide chairman of the celebration Abdullahi Ganduje, by the Chairman of the North Central Governors’ Discussion board and Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule.
It additionally stated the courtesy go to Sule paid to the celebration secretariat in Abuja on Friday to pledge his help for Ganduje was for egocentric and private curiosity and never the curiosity of the North Central area, the APC or President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
Chairman of the Discussion board, Saleh Zazzaga, acknowledged this to journalists in Jos the Plateau State Capital on Saturday.
He stated such endorsements by Governor Sule which is coming when the celebration stakeholders from the area are pushing for the return of the Nationwide Chairmanship place to the North Central just isn’t solely “insensitive and mischievous”, but additionally an act of “betrayal” of the complete area.
Zazzaga who was additionally a member of the Presidential Marketing campaign Council within the final election identified that Governor Sule is aware of effectively that the Nationwide Chairmanship place in line with the celebration association and zoning should be for the North Central after the resignation of Abdullahi Adamu who just isn’t solely from the North Central area but additionally from Governor Sule’s personal state of Nasarawa.
He stated, ”For Governor Sule to brazenly come out and betray his state and the complete area exhibits that he’s somebody who just isn’t after the progress of his personal state, the North Central area, and he isn’t a person of fairness and justice.
Zazzaga additionally revealed that from the onset, Sule didn’t help President Tinubu and did every thing to halt his emergence because the APC presidential candidate, as a result of he was nursing a vice presidential ambition with one other APC presidential candidate.
He stated ”since then, Sule has not been doing issues within the curiosity of the administration, and that now he’s displaying it on the regional degree, and even all the way down to his state of Nasarawa.
“Governor Sule just isn’t a founding member of the APC as a result of he got here in alongside the road, and so he doesn’t perceive the progressive ideology and drive of the celebration.
“That’s the reason he’s doing issues opposite to the idea of the celebration stakeholders, chieftains, bigwigs and members, in addition to supporters.
“In addition to everyone knows that within the 2023 election, the APC in Nasarawa State didn’t carry out satisfactorily beneath Governor Sule; that is apparent within the variety of the legislators received by the celebration in addition to those the opposition events clinched.
“It is usually a identified undeniable fact that Governor Sule didn’t do effectively on the 2023 polls and if not for the judiciary which upheld his election, something may have occurred and APC would have misplaced the state.
“By and huge, what has been Governor Sule’s contribution to the progress of the APC since he joined the celebration? Once more, what have been his growth indices and strides in Nasarawa State? With the rise in allocation gotten by the states in the present day, what has Nasarawa State been capable of do or has to point out beneath Governor Sule?
“And repeatedly, we’ve had grumblings in lots of quarters concerning the management fashion of Governor Sule within the state which many frown upon.
“Subsequently, he isn’t a great ambassador of the celebration and he’s certainly not able to talk for the North Central area or stakeholders of the celebration,” he stated.
He referred to as on all of the North Central governors to disassociate themselves from Governor Sule’s endorsement of Ganduje instantly, alleging that no matter he’s doing is for his egocentric curiosity and never the curiosity of the North Central area.
“Furthermore, everyone knows that Governor Sule just isn’t a agency supporter of President Bola Tinubu, and he’ll do something to convey his administration to disrepute and endorsing Ganduje is one in all such, since Ganduje has already incurred authorized liabilities and different disaffections for the celebration because the Nationwide Chairman.
“And even the Edo and Ondo election which Ganduje management produced the APC flag bearers may very well be one other mistake as he lacked the legitimacy to do this as his place is being contested and unrecognised, and so his motion in Edo and Ondo may very well be one other future authorized legal responsibility,” he added.
