Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike has mocked the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) over the current leadership crisis.
After the APC denied sacking Mai Mala Buni, Niger State Governor Abubakar Sani Bello presided over a meeting of the ruling party’s Caretaker/Extra-ordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC) on Monday.
The meeting took place at the party’s secretariat in Abuja, surrounded by armed security personnel to prevent a breakdown in law and order.
Wike responded to the news by saying that the APC’s leadership crisis was unsurprising given the ruling party’s lack of internal democracy.
He stated this on Monday at the inauguration of the Orogbum Crescent (road) project in Port Harcourt’s New Government Reserved Area (GRA) Phase II.
Governor Wike stated that President Muhammadu Buhari is the party’s sole administrator, and that the Nigerian leader directs the party’s affairs.
The governor called the APC a failed party and stated that he was proud to be a member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
He said: “There is no internal democracy in APC. It is only one man who decides. Mr. President travelled to Kenya, came back on Saturday and ordered that this and that should happen and travelled again yesterday (Sunday).
“No internal democracy because they are not formed to practice democracy. They were only formed to see that they take over power and now they cannot manage it.
“APC has failed. Look at their crisis. It is just ordinary convention that is a problem. Ordinary convention that didn’t take us time as an opposition party.
“Yet you see what is happening and that’s the kind of people you want to put your hope, faith on. It can’t be possible.”
