Respect for Buhari keeping APC intact - Okorocha
Afounding member of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and former governor of Imo State, Senator Rochas Okorocha, has said that respect for President Muhammadu Buhari is the only factor still keeping the ruling party as a united family.
Okorocha, who addressed some journalists yesterday in Abuja ahead his 58 birthday, said the crisis rocking the party was part of consequences that arose after relegating the founding members.
According to him, the party that is smarting from internal crisis after the 2019 general elections, died the day the leadership abandoned the progressive and democratic ideals on which it was founded.
The senator representing Imo West Senatorial District said that apart from President Buhari, the other leaders of the political blocs that merged to form the party in 2015 were practically schemed out by forces that later joined the party.
“….and unless we go back to where it all started, APC can never see the light of the day…,” he warned.
He said: “There is no more APC, what we have is the respect for President
Muhammadu Buhari that is what is keeping us together. What we have is our respect for the person of President Buhari and we still believe that something can be done.
“That trust and respect is what we still call APC, outside that, respect for President Buhari and the trust and belief that he could wake up one day and correct all these injustices and make it fine. That is the only thing that is keeping the APC, if not that, I don’t think there is anything like APC because people are beginning to get fed up. Again, PDP is not even better, the party has its own challenges.”